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Hack Your Car

Posted by michael on from the pistons-exiting-through-hood dept.

gurps_npc writes "The New York Times has this story about hacking your car's chip. You can get significant horse power and torque boosts (+18 horsepower and +70 foot pounds of torque in the given example), as well as improve (or decrease) fuel efficency. The car companies do not like (surprise surprise) people personalizing their vehicle's programming and warn of burning out your engine with bad code, and voiding your warranty."

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  1. car mods? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, we sure are modifying everything these days. As a Valentines tribute, I'd like someone to mod a toilet to allow two people to sit at once and release their poo together. Or does this already exist?

  2. Soviet Russia nothing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    San Fran Farmers market.

    /bad taste

  3. Re:in soviet russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There once was a pedophile called Taco
    who fucked a mexican named Paco
    the kid was smart
    and sued the retard
    now he lives behind bars, the whacko.

  4. XBox rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...

    If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!

    Join the fun!!!

  5. BUT MY CAR RUNS WINDOWS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And consequently runs like crap. No crashes so far thank god.

  6. Re:in soviet russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    who does, Paco or Taco?

  7. Re:in soviet russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pedophile = whacko => taco does

  8. MY PHYSICS HOMEWORK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can anyone help me with my homework?

    A projectile is accelerated to v = 700 m/s in a l = 5 m long barrel. What is the acceleration a? :-(

  9. Re:in soviet russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Paco of course. He was an illegal alien.

  10. Re:in soviet russia... by werdnapk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Only a 1 for funny?!? Nice family guy reference! :)

  11. Where the Fucking warranty on Gas Mileage! by rodgster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, I have to call Bullshit.... RE:

    Cars are tuned for fuel efficiency.

    My truck doesn't get ANYWHERE near the stciker based mileage. My actual highway/city driving over 2000 miles is less than the sticker based city ONLY mileage by 2 miles per gallon. And I drive Normal. No tickets, no accidents, drive at most 10 over the limit and I don't "run it hard". My truck is a V6 with a manual transmission BTW.

    My buddy's Caddilac Escalade with a V8 gets better mileage.

    Sorry but the whole mileage thing is Bullshit Period.

    Oh and by the way. FUCK YOU DODGE (aka Daimler Chrysler)!

    Rodger

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  12. Re:hackable eh? by blurr33 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    u r just stupid man.. even if u r not stupid... god waste time creating you.. what a shame

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