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Transportation

Oct. 9, 2010

Ghost in the Machine

Next generation cars offer a wave of new possibilities, but their increasing complexity also poses regulatory challenges. By Jonathan Michaels of Michaels Law Group.

It's fascinating when you think about it, but the day has actually arrived where the average commuter car has more software code in it than existed in the Apollo 11 spacecraft that put the first man on the moon. Just how far have we progressed? The Apollo 11 Lunar Module of 40 years ago was run by "top-secret" IBM punch cards that were mated to binary mainframe computers. Today, the average Kia has some 100 million lines of software code running through 7...

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