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Personal vehicles are getting way too complicated now. Too many electronic components that can be points of failure.

Recently viewed a video on “steer by wire yoke”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=agMrewRJTow

It’s very interesting but there are so many additional motors, sensors, and actuators to simulate the same experience as mechanical based steering.

If you lose electronic assistance in traditional mechanical based steering, you have to apply more force as a driver and makes the experience difficult.

What happens if I lose one or more components in this “steer by wire yoke”? Seems like as a driver you are shit out of luck. If you are a pedestrian, bye bye.

All I want is a walkable city with public and alternative forms of transportation. All of these “car innovations” are mostly useless.



Well, they’re also incredibly noisy and unreliable. I’d be willing to bet most of the ecu code is simply Bayesian filters to deal with terrible sensor data. Cars are hard environments to get the kind of high fidelity readings you really need for the nitpicky engines they have now.




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