Yup, that's it. In the 90s it was called chip tuning colloquially. Usually switching to eeproms over the stock proms and continually swapping rom chips out after modifying lookup data. The only difference now, is that fpgas and sram got fast and cheap enough we could socket active devices directly onto the bus instead. Same old 90s vehicles, new tech look.

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yeah, i imagine that with time the engineering of optimal timings and response programs they are really efficient now. just the fact that diesel engines can tolerate intermittent operation now, that was not the case until the mid 00s. the number of times i sat at bus interchanges for 5 minutes with the engine idling, doesn't happen anymore, even the buses have better engine controls and all the other new systems they added.