Free Software and Automobiles

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sradms0
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Is there information on this?
If so, I would assume there is only something on a more high level for customizing something in a vehicle? Maybe something like customizing your radio? Just a guess of course.
Anyway, I am interested in knowing, now or later, about when it comes to low-level software running in a car that helps run the engine.
Is this or will this ever be possible for a driver/user to be able to look at and even customize the way the software runs the engine?
I could see something like this being a heavy political issue, for many in not wanting this.
I could have sworn that I heard something on the radio, back when VW was caught for the emissions scandal.

Megver83
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The only thing I know about free software on cars is that some of them have Android as an OS. But of course, they work with non-free software, because if not, we would see the car in the FSF website with the RYF award (hahaha sounds ridiculous)

Alij
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lembas
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This search seems to turn up something "open source" "engine control unit"

While open source misses the point [1], unfortunately free is the last word you want to enter to a search engine... :-/

1 https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

sradms0
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Indeed.