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Old Tue, March 10th, 2009, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Power Hungry View Post
Actually Jack, that's a great way to put it. Your vehicle no longer has a "brain" but something more like a controlling committee or board of directors, if you will. All the modules interact with each other and share data on common nodes. In fact, late model vehicle can have as many as 25 active communications nodes in the vehicle. This makes things interesting when programming or doing diagnostics.

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What a flippn' mess! Hasn't anyone heard of the KISS principle?

One of my favorite SF authors, Robert A. Heinlein, once described a committee of ten as, "An organism with 20 legs and no brain". I've always felt that way about committees.

And now you tell me I have a committee in control of my truck?

- Jack
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