Most liked posts in thread: In-car electronics to become as valuable as horsepower?

See, that's something I don't understand.

Phones have GPS and accelerometers in them, so it seems that if the phone is moving beyond a certain speed that it should be aware of that. If it is aware of the fact that it's moving, it should turn off the phone and texting part, and only allow things like music and maps.

I'd like that to be an option on the phones, turned on by default (if no hands free device is present?) but still able to be turned off for emergencies or some such.

And if a phone could theoretically be made to do that, how much simpler for in-car distracting electronics?

I mean, it's not like we have sophisticated calculating machines that can be made to monitor multiple variables and conditions or anything.

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There are actually some apps that do just that......if the car is moving no texts and only hands free talking. One was actually developed by a mom with no programming skills, but she taught herself and wrote an app after her daughter died in an accident while on the phone.

 

With the Megasquirt3 in my turbo Miata, I can tune any aspect of the engine management on the fly, or use the programming to have it tune its VE map itself while I drive. No need to pull over and twiddle a jet or float. Same result, different tools to do the job.

The article Nathan posted reminds me of the current state of Tesla; a big part of their value is in the software. The P85D owners were geeked (and much YouTube videos resulted) when they got "Insane" launch mode, which was a software update.

 

This has been a long time coming. When kids spend more on the radio (ICE) than the rest of the car the performance enthusiast may be dead.