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There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center on Wheels)
(www.carsandhorsepower.com)
Not this ship, sister.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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My daily driver is a bicycle, checkmate.
there are 100 computers hiding in your car right now
Wow! I have a car?
I am as surprised as you are.
You’re riding a data center on wheels
Oh yeah? Where’s my tax break then? And my subsidized water usage?
I mean, strictly speaking yes, but that's like saying your quartz watch is a computer.
Cars have been like this for three decades. The problem is that some of those computers do data collection & upload.
Headlines are clearly not written for lemmy users lmao.
No it doesn't. The only computer in there is the aftermarket head unit, and even that is over a decade old.
All I need is a baseline open hardware EV. Fat chance, of course. So I guess I have to buy something used, today older than 8 years and counting.
Not quite open hardware, but it's minimal compute - https://www.slate.auto/
I tried so hard to hold on for the chance to purchase one but my old car began to reek of moist unwashed towels thanks to all the rain. Ended up getting a sweet deal on a '22 Bolt with 13k miles for $15k. There's a way to reversibly terminate the data line with $15 worth of equipment and 10 minutes.
I have my prrorder but without a price still I am still unsure if I will get one.
Interesting, thanks.
Pretty sure that my 2004 rav4 that just lost a muffler on the highway does not house a data center, it still has a tape deck....
This is promising career news for data center techs like me.
Nope. We bought a pretty dumb car. Sadly only the "entry-models" have no shit in them. At least no cloud-shit. Android-auto to not be bound to abysmal onboard-systems that require subscriptions. And that's it.
I love tech from the depth of my heart. But in a car I want haptic buttons and dials and no 2m long touchscreens where I can only turn on the AC when I have reception 😁
Your car probably has an electronics module (ECM) and a power train module (PCM) at the very least. But there's very few cars built in the last 3 decades that don't have at least two computers in them of some kind.
Obviously that's not a "data center on wheels" but I hope this headline is hyperbole.
Yeah of course our car does not run on love and solar energy :) I totally don't worry about some tech, i worry about connected cars. Which only unavoidably leads to subscriptions for everything and tons of privacy problems.