RE: Brake by Wire

[smeagol]

One last point which I forgot about "brake by wire" is that it is a step closer to a fully integrated system of brakes, steering and acceleration controled by wire.

Any pistonhead here will agree that the joy of driving is the feedback you get from the car. Anyone that has used a force feedback steering wheel in a game would quite agree that the feeling is nothing like a real car. I do not want to be driving a car that is a real-life video game.

[gnomesmith]

Thanks for warning me about italian electrics. I will be writing to Schumacher (M) warning him that he is most unlikely to be able to win a world championship in an Italian car because of the dodgy sparks.

PS... the only electrical components ever to let me down other than bulbs have been an automatic transmission relay on an XK Coupe (Bosch) and a set of plugs on my Blydenstein Magnum where the ceramic parted company with the plug body on all four plugs (Bosch again). I replaced a reliable SU electric fuel pump on a 2 litre MGB I used to run with a Japanese solid state electric pump. Good job I left the old pump in parallel as the new super pump failed within a month. The SU was still pumping when I sold the car with 130K miles on the clock. My experiences may be untypical but its a funny old world isn't it.

[apache]

smeagol, your aircraft preflight checks are done by 'built in test' systems which are selectable in some cases but automatic in the main. A lot of modern cars have such systems that do a swift check on power up to ensure everything is ok,(my crappy xantia's engine management does this) the routine servicing is done to the mechanicals not ecu's etc purely because there is no requirement or facility for it. So fly by wire brakes don't bother me too much. (btw although airliners have triple redundant flight control systems they no longer have any mechanical backup)I hasten to add I drive a Griff for the purity of driving experience

Edited by apache on Wednesday 19th December 13:42