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Dear lord it is steer by wire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=KgAghyLo4os&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Finsideevs.com%2F&source_ve_path

• fragmede 3y ago
  Yeah but the ECU isn't written in React and has an actual specification to follow. Think nanoservice, with a corresponding level of complexity, ie low, and not modern web app written in a new framework that's a couple of months old. Even you could do a good job writing code the problem space is tiny. Airplanes have been steer-by-wire since the 70's. Strangely air travel isn't this horrible death trap of an ordeal because of this.
  • rightbyte 3y ago
    Ye I know. I have worked with ECU programming. Airplanes got way better redundancy than automotive and hopefully better programming practices. There are two scary things the ECUs can do. Block the brakes with the ABS valves. Steer full left, if you got some steering assist. This adds so many malfunctions with bad fail states for no good reason. The steering column would easily fit there. It's empty by their feet. There is just no way I would trust steer-by-wire for cars.
• huytersd 3y ago
  Yeah but it’s probably embedded systems programming with assembly/binary. It’s not some piece of shit framework with 16 levels of abstraction where it’s impossible to make anything robust.