If you’re looking to soup up your whip, the first place you’ll probably look is the engine control unit. This computer shoved in the engine compartment controls just about every aspect of your car’s ...

The Engine Control Unit is a vital part of every car made in the last 40 years or so, but unlike just about every other electronic device, open source solutions just don’t exist. [Andrey] is trying to ...

Picture the scene. It is 1938. A group of hot rods have gathered on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Lots of folks are fiddling with tuned Ford V8 hot rods. A man, brandishing a megaphone, says: “One day we ...

Some of us have been there. Others never have. For those who have seen the inside, we realize it's a scary and confusing place. We slowly found our way around the "safer areas," then ventured further ...

Mercedes-Benz USA has issued a safety recall affecting 27,190 examples of the 223-generation Sonderklasse. Incorrect programming of the engine control unit software may result in an engine stall while ...

Modern automatic transmissions are very different from their predecessors. The amount of software that goes into a transmission control unit beggars belief, and we also have to remember that said ...