Here's what drives cars of the '80sâ the Electronic Computer Module(ECM).Typical GM unit has an analog board to run sensors, digital board for"thinking" and memory. Removable PROM(at left)calibrates ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. News about Apple's rumored car initiative has taken a back ...

Tesla vehicles are equipped with computers that control various infotainment systems and enable autonomous driving. David Schutz, who works in product security at Meta, explained how to run the ...

Modern cars don't just track you when you're using navigation. Onboard electronics store data about your every move.

In 1979, the United States Congress approved a 1.5-billion-dollar bailout for one of the nation’s top ten corporations and the smallest of Detroit’s Big Three. Chrysler’s CEO Lee Iacocca himself ...

New cars today are loaded with high-tech features for car shoppers. But with those advancements come questions about driver privacy, said Ivan Drury, the director of insights at Edmunds, a car site.

Sadly, nothing new in the computer world remains new for long. In 1965, Gordon Moore (one of the founders of Intel Corporation) published a paper predicting that computing power would double every two ...

Tesla has officially issued a recall on over 200,000 vehicles in the US over the self-driving computer inside the vehicle short-circuiting and failing to work. This is an issue that Electrek has been ...

Howdy,<BR><BR>I have to support 30+ computers that have been installed in cars, and one of the problems popping up is the computers are killing the car battery, many times causing the computer to ...