F1 teams have never fully owned the car, you’ll notice they all look pretty similar. The FIA has a lot of rules around the construction of the cars
FIA, the FIFA of motorsport.
Gotta love how people assume software patches have never been prepared in an emergency before LLMs. Ever heard of Apollo 14?
Apollo 14? Is that a new model?
Apollo 14 was one of the original moon landing missions back in 1971. They had to make an emergency adjustment to the computer's memory to work around an electrical issue where the abort button would intermittently (and erroneously) register as pressed. Turns out they couldn't modify the actual machine code so it wasn't a "software patch" in the exact same sense, but there were certainly no large language models back then.
There was a newer model called the Hubble, its patch was far more expensive and needed on site engineers.
I’ve really enjoyed this year.
What do you think mechanics do with old school cars?