I have been making a few posts lately trying to let people know how important the PCM has become in the automotive industry. Some of it's early history and where they can and may go with it.
Each generation has become smarter and more intricately involved in the running of our cars and trucks. The 6.0 has become literally dependant on the PCM. Almost every electrical circuit is either directly or indirectly controlled by the PCM, what it doesn't control it reads.
My my what the future will bring.
So you might ask to what end? What may it mean to me and my truck.?
In the near future your car/truck will be fully automated. You will be able to walk out to your vehicle start it, open the doors adjust the climate controls the seats. All before you open the door. You will be able to talk to your car tell it where you want to go and it will take you there.
Shades of George Jetson you say not in my lifetime. Well think again look around you a lot of that technology already exists and is use today. The Hyaundai that parks itself. The Mercadies and Volvo collosion avoidance systems, the stereo systems and gps systems you can talk to. I even saw a commercial where you could talk to the climate control.
Now you marry all of those systems together and your on your way to a car that can drive itself.
Not so much science fiction anymore is it. Shure there is a lot left to be done but not insurmountable.
To follow will be an article on what your PCM knows about you and what it can tell.
Each generation has become smarter and more intricately involved in the running of our cars and trucks. The 6.0 has become literally dependant on the PCM. Almost every electrical circuit is either directly or indirectly controlled by the PCM, what it doesn't control it reads.
My my what the future will bring.
So you might ask to what end? What may it mean to me and my truck.?
In the near future your car/truck will be fully automated. You will be able to walk out to your vehicle start it, open the doors adjust the climate controls the seats. All before you open the door. You will be able to talk to your car tell it where you want to go and it will take you there.
Shades of George Jetson you say not in my lifetime. Well think again look around you a lot of that technology already exists and is use today. The Hyaundai that parks itself. The Mercadies and Volvo collosion avoidance systems, the stereo systems and gps systems you can talk to. I even saw a commercial where you could talk to the climate control.
Now you marry all of those systems together and your on your way to a car that can drive itself.
Not so much science fiction anymore is it. Shure there is a lot left to be done but not insurmountable.
To follow will be an article on what your PCM knows about you and what it can tell.