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1. jrflo · 1791166844 · focus · HN ↗

   A question for someone who knows more about F1: Is this firmware shared by all cars? Or some local server at the track the cars connect to? Why is F1 able to control individual cars like this? The article is very light on details as to what exactly is going on...

   1. fishgoesblub · 1791167034 · focus · HN ↗

      The FIA has this software to stop teams from creating a form of traction control (which has been banned for a good while now)

      1. para_parolu · 1791167413 · focus · HN ↗

         Why? To increase chances of crashes that produces more views?

         1. johannes1234321 · 1791168043 · focus · HN ↗

            I am not big in F1, but my understanding is that the primary goal is to have the driver be more relevant over the car/firmware producers.

            1. ActorNightly · 1791187458 · focus · HN ↗

               Generally, the way F1 was originally supposed to work is that manufacturers develop tech to skirt regulations, which then means that tech makes it eventually into consumer cars. A lot of the core technology in modern cars (TC, ABS, Turbo control, e.t.c) got properly developed in F1 before it was brought to the masses.

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