Rode my 27 year old Honda to its new owner today set me thinking on progress in that field - the Honda had one primitive computer to make the sparks fire at the right time (Optical CDI thing) - Rode the BMW later.
On powering up the main ECU will fire up, measure air temp, set fuel states - the Braking system ECU fires up and sets up the ABS and power brakes for the imminent trip, the integral GPS system fires up at the same time and starts acquiring satellites and also at the same time pairs wirelessly to my Blackeberry for telecomes - at the same time the oil system is checked as are the tyre pressures and self test of all lighting - all this within seconds of firing up the bike. To power this is a 720 watt altenator.
That's what I call progress....:-(
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