I didn't know that steer-by-wire was even legal in the US, but according to the article Toyoda is already doing it in a couple of their models. I'm not sure ho

I didn't know that steer-by-wire was even legal in the US, but according to the article Toyoda is already doing it in a couple of their models. I'm not sure how I feel about not having a direct link to the steering, but physical links can fail too. And you can have backup "wire" links much easier than you can add a backup physical link.