Cars Are Now Computers on Wheels

Your daily driver is actually a distributed network of seventy computers disguised as a car.

Electronics and software now account for a massive chunk of the price tag because mechanical

links are dying out. We are living in the age of X-by-wire, where your steering

and braking are often just digital requests sent to a microprocessor. You have specific

domains for the engine, the chassis, and even the body just to roll down

a window. It is a miracle these systems don't crash more often, considering your

life literally depends on the quality of the code running under the hood.