Car computers learn and remember.
Dozens of performance computer-chip manufacturers offer products to modify the factory settings that are programmed into your car's computer. Drivers install computer-chip programs for all sorts of modifications, including performance, trailer towing and gas mileage. What some people don't realize is that the factory computer can learn and actively modify itself based on your driving habits. So, before you spend money on a new computer chip, make a few driving changes.
Instructions
1. Change the way you accelerate. In the early 1990s, General Motors termed its computer-learning system "block learning integration." If you make driving changes only once or twice, it will not change the computer program. However, if you make the same driving change 50 or more times, the change is learned and integrated into the computer's memory.
2. Change your average driving speed. The vehicle speed sensor enters the driving speed in the computer. After a period of time, the parameters inside the computer compensate and change settings to deliver the best performance based on this input. Be patient, though, because these benefits come only over time as the computer learns.
3. Change the way you slow down and brake. The computer also takes these factors into account to create a driving profile that is tailored to you. That's why two identical cars have differences in their throttle response and gas mileage; the computer has different driver profiles stored in memory.
