A Timeline of Automotive Software
How the car became a computer — and how the rules caught up with it
Fifty years of code moving from the engine bay to the whole vehicle. The story starts with emissions law, not with software visionaries: mechanical carburetors and distributors simply could not hit the precision the Clean Air Act demanded. Filter by thread to follow one strand — how control moved into software, how the computers were networked, how connectivity and autonomy changed the risk, and how regulation responded.
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