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Aren't brakes and steering mostly manual? I don't think it's the right advice to tell people to trust Autopilot when it's failed in several egregious ways.
by darkerside 8y ago
Aren't brakes and steering mostly manual? I don't think it's the right advice to tell people to trust Autopilot when it's failed in several egregious ways.
- TylerE 8y agoSteering is electronic.
- jgibson 8y agoElectronically assisted, but still mechanically coupled for 99% of consumer cars. I've completely lost 12V on a car before and still managed to bring it safely to the side of the road. Inifinity tried steer-by-wire but ended up retrofitting traditional hydraulic steering back.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_by_wire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_by_wire
- chii 8y agosterring is electric, but there's always a backup system in case the electronics fail: https://youtu.be/em1O8mz7sF0?t=276 https://youtu.be/em1O8mz7sF0?t=276
- jgibson 8y agoThey are manual in the sense that there is a physical connection: the steering wheel is usually mechanically coupled with the steering rack, brakes usually through through hydraulics. That said there are probably 5-20 systems in a car that can completely control these systems without any human input. Think of automatic emergency braking, traction control, vehicle stability control for the brakes, and autopark + powered steering for the steering. Most of these systems have multiple redundancy and isolated monitors (eg, if autopark is on and the vehicle speed is > 10mph, the monitor will intervene) but there are still probably some theoretical situations where this could occur