On Sep 26, 2014, at 8:38 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another problem that's come to the fore in recent years is convincing the > car's body computers that they should let the accessories work without the > car's orginal engine running. Modern cars are miracles of engineering...but I personally want nothing at all to do with most of the computerization parts. The stories in the news recently about "subprime" auto loan companies requiring remote kill switches in the cars they lease, and then getting overly aggressive in turning off cars...and combine with drive-by-wire systems and over-the-air updates and built-in Internet connections...and throw in an heaping helping of warrantless FISA and NSA and similar activities, plus "script kiddies"... ...and I'm much happier sticking with '60s-era vehicular technology, thankyouverymuch. It's something I've put serious thought into for the '64 1/2 Mustang PHEV conversion. The first iteration is going to have a regular hall effect sensor sending its own signal straight to the motor controller, but a later iteration is likely to stick a GEVCU controller between the two...which means a CAN bus. But I'll be keeping the ICE side purely mechanical. Even if some pimply-faced youth tries to hack the EV half of the car "for the lulz," flip the main disconnect to turn off the EV system and drive away with the V8 -- with breaks and steering always being all mechanical. Of course, that doesn't stop old-fashioned means of mayhem, like slashing tires or cutting break lines or a banana in the tailpipe...but those have to be done in person, and can't be done from the other side of the planet. If you want real scary...just wait for one of the Mexican kidnapping cartels to figure out how to use remote hacks to take full control of a car. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/we-drove-a-car-while-it-was-being-hacked Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140927/652a608a/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
