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MajorDano
09-02-2005, 02:03 PM
The new Mazda Sassou while being 'cool and promoting a positive state of mind' has a most important feature, that every geek will love. Instead of the classic key it uses a usb flash drive for starting up. The key can also be used to transfer things like driving instructions or music to the car's hard drive.

http://www.everythingusb.com/mazda_sassou.html
mitssn
09-02-2005, 03:19 PM
Isn't that going to make it easier to steal???
ncttrnl
09-02-2005, 03:26 PM
Isn't that going to make it easier to steal???

Maybe but not necessarily.

Depends on the implementation.
g60racer
09-11-2005, 09:55 AM
It'll finally make it possible to write a virus to upload to the car's ECU!!! Funk dat!!
ElecMoHwk
09-11-2005, 10:04 AM
They'd have to put the KEY features in a chip, non-rewriteable or readable outside of the car's "ignition". If it's just a friggin .ini file... wow. That'll be fun.

I would think that anything else would go to the harddrive in the car, which is NOT the ecu, but merely an addon for the nav system and stereo. I don't think they'd make a car's engine control "hackable".... that'd be gay.