As one who reviews lots of embedded software looking for safety issues, I have been intrigued by the Toyota recall, and am anxiously awaiting the verdict on the computer controlled throttle issue.

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 ...

In his editorial for the January 1986 issue of HOT ROD, former Editor Leonard Emanuelson observed, "We have just scratched the surface of hot rodding with electronics." In 1989, Hypertech's owner, ...

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 ...