I don’t have experience with automobile firmware design, but I would image that McLaren used OBD, before it’s second iteration release, and therefore utlized the CAN bus. Looks like the card on the laptop probably did some kind of encryption or obfuscation.

I am unsure which ATMs you’ve worked with in the past Jonah, but my time with Wells Fargo, they used the desktop enterprise version of Windows XP.

Not really Mike. Just like 6 years ago, in College, I was programming with the Intel 8086 processor, which was released in 1979. Protocols are standerdized for a reason. We still use UART, SPI, I2C, USB, RS232, and GPIO to this day. I can utilize all these protocols and interfaces from my modern day workstation. If…

Sounds like McLaren, much like other companies in the world, didn’t think about the future, a flaw in their engineering division if you ask me.....

Don’t know what to tell you Geoffrey, but Engineering has been a solid career choice for centuries. Sure, if you messed up on a catapult back in the day, you’ll get behaded; but I am sure your daughter won’t have that problem going into the future (I hope). I love being a computer engineer, and there are a large…

I work in Campbell and live in Milpitas. Let’s hang out sometime Alex! Are you going to any of the croissants and coffe thing in Santana Row?

I don’t understand....manual blah blah blah blah. Everyone on Jalopnik complains so much about more mancufacturers discounting manuals, yet the market trend is to discontinue such cars. People vote with their dollars, and companies recognize that. So instead of complaining of complaning that the manual is…

So in reality, after tax, using the SF number, you need to be making closer to 160k a year to be comfortable in San Francisco.

Two words: Science and Engineering. Being an engineer myself, I always loved how much hard work and innovation goes into making a single car, and that is what makes me love them. Controlling miniature explosions to go pick up groceries, brilliant.

My coworkers say you have to “fake it till you make it.” That’s why I bought a 50k BMW.

I am not comfortable in a 2-series or 1-series, even though the 2-series is a much larger car than the 1-series. I am very very very happy in my 4-series, and will probably be buying a M4 in the future. I can fit 4 adults including myself in my 4-series comfortably.

Mirror + motor + labor. Bmw 428i.

So I was sitting in traffic here in the Bay Area, at a stop light just trying to get home. Out of nowhere comes a motorcylist, hits my car’s passenger side mirror and bends it. He then looks at me, I try to get out of the car to see the damage and he just lanesplits the hell out of there. I couldn’t pursue due to…

A scripted show where Clarkson offends everyone.

This is how every Tavarish article should be titled. He misleads so many individuals that lack the information he should be providing for maintenance and cost of ownership.

I certainly have a degree in being a bachelor......

One of the most unreliable supercars on the market, no thanks.

100% agree!!! But when you’re a broke college kid who’s always dreamed of owning a 3000GT, hard to pass up a good deal for a beautiful car.

Wow, the visibility in that car is almost as bad as a Camaro.

Back when I first started learning about cars and was a naive young man, I used to own a 1997 3000GT. I started having misfires on a cylinder and went online on 3si on trying to diagnose the issue.