Just even more driver assist (ADAS) shit, and the ever steady march toward driverless cars. Basically so many modules in a car, talking so much and so quickly that we're going to be using ethernet instead of 2 wire CAN systems. 360 short range radar, long range forward facing radar, FLIR, cameras etc...There's so much shit going on that SAE and ISO are changing the way trouble codes are done, because they ran out of 5 digit combinations, and of course CARB wants as many ways to monitor emissions equipment as they can.
Guy running the ADAS class talked about how his new Jeep pickup almost got him killed on the freeway because he had it loaded down enough to the noise pointed slightly skyward and the foward facing radar thought a low bridge was a car in front of him and stopped the rig, then wouldn't let him have any throttle because of the obvious imminent collision... with a fucking bridge.
They hinted at the idea of basically the road being an internet of its own, so the traffic light up ahead can tell your car that the light is red while your nose is buried in your phone and the engine will roll the throttle off while the ABS applies the brakes and prevents you from blowing the light. Also, all the security/safety concerns that come with having your car hooked up to the internet like those guys that hacked a new Cherokee a few years ago via the built in WiFi.
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