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Originally Posted by Double Phister
on a related note the newer fuel injected dirtbikes don't have batteries. Operating the kick starter generates enough juice to boot the ECU that then wakes up to see the crank moving just in time to start doling out spark and fuel.
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There is a difference between electronics and and an ECU. It doesn't take a processor/code to trigger a spark. IC engines have been running without batteries since, well, they were invented. Even electronic fuel injection and variable ignition timing don't require anything that needs to "boot".
That said, F1 steering wheels probably don't boot in the car unless you force them to. They are powered up and ready to go before they plug them in. And even then, there probably isn't anything resembling what we would call an OS. Stupid fast optimized machine code reading sensors, doing table lookups and sending control signals out. But what do I know??? maybe they run Windows Mobile.
