VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data

Re:VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data by alexey-salmin on Monday December 30, 2024 @06:57AM (#42548522)

ECU modifications are rare (most people don't care) and car manufacturers don't lose money on it. If money gets on the table, I'm 100% sure they'll sue the workshops like John Deere did. And given the lobby VW has in Europe they can also pass some extra laws to reinforce their case.

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Re:VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data by pluc on Monday December 30, 2024 @07:04AM (#42548569)

I don't know about that... There's a whole industry of performance parts that softly depend on ECU modifications. There's much less of an incentive to swap parts if your ECU doesn't keep up with the performance gains.

But you are absolutely right on the loss of money aspect.

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Re:VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data by numpad0 on Monday December 30, 2024 @07:02PM (#42554991)

Most "ECU tuning" are just minor config file changes. The map is sufficiently complex being an R^2 data, enough to justify it being a skill. Actual car-guy-firmware-hackers are ultra rare.

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