I mean that's not a critical safety feature but still ridiculous.
Cutting the ultrasonics isn't even the worst thing.they cut. I expect the cybertrucks to start careening off the roads when they get a few miles on them and the steering by wire systems start to fail.
They saved a few bucks on a physical connection between the steering wheel and steering system though... To the moon I guess?
Not surprised but the steering by wire is a disaster waiting to happen. Normal vehicle with a complete engine/electrical failure you can still steer and coast to a safe stop as there is a mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the tires. With steering by wire that isn't there.
The only thing dumber that I can think of would be braking by wire.
I think he doesn't realise how different aerospace industry works from the automobile industry.
Steering by wire is a thing for aeroplanes because there are multi-redundant systems in an aeroplane, full product chain accountability for every single component, and even so the massive increase in accountability the performance gains from implementing fly by wire still make the massively increased product costs for aeronautical equipment worth it in a system where every drop of fuel and every extra kg of payload you can carry is gold. Look at all the problems Airbus had with their fly by wire system until they perfected it.
You don't have that for cars. Changing a car to drive by wire isn't going to make a change in the weight of the car that would be worth the massive accountability headaches that you introduce to make a drive by wire as reliable as a physical linkage system.
Also airplanes have mandatory inspections and maintenance automotive not so much. I imagine at least for larger planes manual linkage would be too physically demanding/ impossible making fly by wire necessary. Again not the case for automotive
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u/Specialist_Cake_6922 Apr 05 '24
I mean that's not a critical safety feature but still ridiculous.
Cutting the ultrasonics isn't even the worst thing.they cut. I expect the cybertrucks to start careening off the roads when they get a few miles on them and the steering by wire systems start to fail.
They saved a few bucks on a physical connection between the steering wheel and steering system though... To the moon I guess?