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No thanks. The first thing I check in any vehicle is if there is any drive-by-wire anything followed by remote telemetry. If it has or had any of that I will
by LinuxBender 2y ago
No thanks. The first thing I check in any vehicle is if there is any drive-by-wire anything followed by remote telemetry. If it has or had any of that I will not buy it or ride in it. Modern vehicles have a significantly long way to go to prove their local and remote security.
- turtleyacht 2y agoWould be nice to have a site like phoneshome.io to aggregate that, at least for cars, routers, and IoT.
- VMG 2y agoDo you accept power steering?
- SR2Z 2y agoI'm sure he does, as long as there's a mechanical linkage.
- LinuxBender 2y agoYes hydraulic assist is fine. A skiddie can't hack in and take control. A move fast and break things can't bug my steering. I have lost hydraulic assist whilst driving and there's usually enough pressure left to exit the road before I have to muscle it off the road. And to SR2Z's point yup as long as there is physical linkage I am good.
- whalesalad 2y agoPretty close to impossible to find a modern vehicle (less than 20 years old) that is not using drive by wire technology.
- baby_souffle 2y agoTo varying degrees. Throttle cables have been replaced with wires for at least 20 years. Rack and pinion is slowly going away but odds are still pretty good that an arbitrarily chosen new car won’t use steer by wire; that’s still pretty niche. Shift / clutch has been electric for a while now on most cars but there’s still some “pure mechanical” shifting cars out there. An all digital break system is probably going to take a _while_ to become standard.
- relaxing 2y agoFour wheel steer was a common use case for steer by wire in the past.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThrottle-by-wire, yes: any modern car has this. Steer-by-wire or brake-by-wire, no. If the power dies, you can still steer to the side of the road and apply the brakes.
- OptionOfT 2y agoThe Cybertruck is steer by wire. Infinite had it with a backup, but it was bad. On the good old BMWs with hydraulic steering, you could get Active Steering, i.e. variable steering. They basically introduced a planetary gear set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unL8HpMeVTA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unL8HpMeVTA If today you buy a BMW with Active Steering it means you get rear-wheel steering (on top of the standard front-wheel steering, but don't tell the execs, you don't want to need a subscription for front-wheel steering). On BMWs since the F* (with the electric assist steering) variability was achieved by a variable-ratio steering rack.
- ycombinatrix 2y agoWhat are you driving these days?
- m463 2y agoI was going to say "a skateboard" but then I thought of onewheel which is basically skateboard by wire with an (optional) app. I dislike what the future brings (normalizes)
- adiabatichottub 2y agoI love the One wheel, but it's a trip that the design is inherently dangerous in edge states (over max power output or regen braking with a full battery)
- DonHopkins 2y agoWhenever I see somebody riding on a onewheel, I like to think they're at the end of a long calamitous journey that started out in a much larger vehicle.
- teddyh 2y agoYou stole that joke; it’s at least 5 years old: <https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/eyhpdj/the_power_of_the_unicycle/ https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/eyhpdj/the_po...>
- DonHopkins 2y agoI'll admit to stealing jokes, but not to reading reddit!
- teddyh 2y agoReally. <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=DonHopkins%20reddit&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
- anonzzzies 2y agoUnfortunately, the other drivers are there.