Comment on Hyundai car requires $2000, app & internet access to fix your brakes - what the actual f
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoPossible? Yes. Practical? No. You can’t just cut the harnesses out and suddenly it’s a different engine, you’d have to replace what you deleted with something and that something might not exist yet because there’s no money in developing it.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Right. Pretty much everything is computer now. Even in the last 20-30 years, a lot of engine control has been done by computer. You’d have to go back pretty far to find one with no digital circuitry.
If you wanted to retrofit a modern car, like you said, you’d have to replace the entire compter system with a new one, or replace everything with linkages. Are any controls directly connected any more, or are cars 100% drive-by-wire?
db2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re making them without dipsticks now so I really doubt you’d find even one cable. Even the emergency brakes aren’t done by linkage.