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Message: <blockquote data-quote="viewfinder" data-source="post: 2511" data-attributes="member: 1704"><p>Seagate indicates so.  The very last major section of an interview transcript with Seagate CEO (the rest of the article is totally unrelated to engine or automobile):"You have recently made some product announcements for hard drives aimed at the automotive market. What opportunities do you see there?The auto makers want to do a few things. First, they want to put entertainment in the back seat. Already, cars have CD and DVD players, but at some point you're going to want that entertainment content to be downloaded from somewhere in an on-demand way. They also want to sell you a service in the front seat with GPS [Global Positioning System] technology connected to it. You might call someone up and ask to download maps of San Francisco as you're driving to San Francisco, and those maps will be stored on a hard drive. The third place [auto makers] want to put a hard drive is in the engine. They want to collect lots of data about how well the engine is running and what's going on with each component -- and that could have a big impact on warranties. " URL to full interview transcript:<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc20050927_1608_tc057.htm" target="_blank">The third place [auto makers] want to put a hard drive is in the engine.</a></p></blockquote><p></p>