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Yeah look at planes. I'd rather have hydraulics and mechanical controls still in a car. Which is why I drive a primitive POS (Dacia Duster).
by baz00 3y ago
Yeah look at planes. I'd rather have hydraulics and mechanical controls still in a car. Which is why I drive a primitive POS (Dacia Duster).
- psunavy03 3y agoTell me you have zero flight time or aircraft engineering experience without telling me you have zero flight time or aircraft engineering experience. This is no different from Trump claiming he wanted "damn steam" for aircraft carrier catapults despite electromagnetic ones having clear advantages. This isn't 1969 anymore.
- baz00 3y agoI do actually but that's irrelevant. It's an engineering trade-off. In a car, it's a stupid one because its built to a cost profile not a safety profile. You can't compare a $200m Airbus to a whatever it's going to cost but is being lied about vanity machine kicked out by a vendor with a history of software problems. Actually the risk profile is probably higher on the damn car.
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- dopamean 3y agoI think all airbus commercial jets are fly by wire.
- baz00 3y agoNot totally. They have two redundant computers in the control loop. But they worked out this was a shitty idea if there was a failure so there are mechanical and electrical backup systems. Whilst "fly by wire" technically speaking they don't involve a computer in the loop. I'd still rather have a totally mechanical backup.
- NovemberWhiskey 3y ago>Not totally. They have two redundant computers in the control loop. But they worked out this was a shitty idea if there was a failure so there are mechanical and electrical backup systems. Whilst "fly by wire" technically speaking they don't involve a computer in the loop. What's the basis for that claim? Even in direct-law, there's still a computer in the path. In aircraft with the BCM, that's still a flight control computer, albeit one that's separate from the primary/secondary flight control computers.
- baz00 3y agoAFAIK BCM is straight servo loop.
- m463 3y agoThey have some mechanical bits. I think you can fly the a320 by modulating the engine thrust and using trim wheels. The more terrifying thing about airbus is that their philosophy (like teslas) is that the computer is the ultimate decision maker. Boeing has the philisophy that it is the pilot (with a little caveat for the 737 max mcas thing)
- baz00 3y agoExactly. In the case of the Cybertruck you can't modulate shit!