Who is the biggest user of computer chips?

Normally I don't write on stuff I have not researched, but this topic intrigues me.

Why you might ask? Well, I once heard that the largest computer user is not the aerospace industry or the military but the good old auto industry. You are driving a rolling aresenal of computer technology down the road! Everything has a chip connected to it. Fuel injection would not be as easily used in engines were it not for computer chips. A chum of mine had the headlights go out in his older Pontiac. Guess what, the sucker uses a computer to control them. Cost him over $400 bucks to get it fixed!

Cadillac had an embarassing moment a few years ago when all the trunks on them opened up. All over N. America, not just in some small area. Seemed the satellite system goofed and popped them all open. Mark one up for "Onstar".

Just wait till the banks and finance companies get into that system! You miss a payment and click, your car dies on the spot. They just query the GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) and send a tow truck to it's location. Heck, the system is capable of being so smart they would disable it only while parked with the engine off too. That way there is no chance of the valuable goods causing an accident. World's safest car is one that won't start!

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