Modern vehicles can contain around 100 Electronic Control Units (ECUs). An ECU is a minicomputer that collects data and determines whether to activate a function based on the information received.

See the full list of impacted models. American Honda announced this week it will voluntarily recall nearly 295,000 Honda and Acura vehicles in the U.S. to update the fuel injection electronic control ...

The company announced a new software line called EB corbos, which makes it easier for engineers to condense cars' code into multicore processors. Autonomous test cars are Frankensteins. Each vehicle ...

The ignition control module is a crucial component of a vehicle's ignition system. It is a control unit responsible for regulating the ignition timing and generating sparks to ignite the fuel-air ...

Audi’s signature Quattro full-time all-wheel-drive system debuted 40 years ago. During the intervening decades, cars have added a multitude of subsystems for powertrain and chassis control, producing ...

Your engine feels calm at a stoplight because a hidden idle system keeps fuel, air, and spark in balance. That quiet ...

Chrysler Corp. upstaged GM, Ford, and AMC with the unveiling of the U.S. auto industry's first mass-produced, magnetic-trigger, breaker-less electronic ignition system in 1972, a full three model ...

Hyundai is recalling 1,642,551 cars because of an antilock brake module that can leak and cause a fire under the hood. Kia is recalling 1,730,192 cars because a hydraulic electronic control unit (HECU ...

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Quickly fading are the days when we were free to dream of cranking a lever connected to cables that would squeeze the brakes and break traction, as more and more modern cars replace cabled emergency ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (iSeeCars) – There are a lot of mechanical ...

Infineon, Microchip and NXP Semiconductors are among those building hardware security into chips as car manufacturers move to remotely upgrade the hundreds of millions of lines of code inside vehicles ...