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> Which is surely an innovation in drive-by-wire implementations.

I wish it was illegal to have drive by wire in brakes or steering. These are the two most vital systems in a car that I absolutely need to retain control of in order to stay alive.

All software has some bugs, so we need to acknowledge that. Brakes and steering are too vital to let them be controlled by software alone, when we know there are always some bugs in all software.



So you'd ban 50% of planes too (Airbus)?


>So you'd ban 50% of planes too (Airbus)?

Aside from the obvious answers (planes are regulated differently from cars, getting a pilot's license requires more training, etc), let me point out that autopilots for planes existed for over a century, but we are only getting some semblance of that in cars now because flying is a much easier control problem to solve.

See, there's not many obstacles in the air.


By this year Tesla's fly-by-wire will be more reliable than Airbus simply due to number of miles driven and vehicles made.


>By this year Tesla's fly-by-wire will be more reliable than Airbus simply due to number of miles driven and vehicles made.

[citation needed]

Flying is the safest mode of transportation by a large margin[1], so you'd need to fudge your metric quite a lot to arrive with that conclusion.

That's before we get into the nitty-gritty of which incidents can be attributed to the autopilot failure to avoid apples-to-oranges comparisons.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/travel/worried-about-flying-heres-what-t...


Unsure why mention autopilot when talking fly-by-wire. Yes it won’t be as redundant as airplane fly-by-wire, but merely by putting miles and manufacturing hundreds of thousands copies one improves quality.


I don't think Airbus makes cars? This thread is about cars.

Planes don't have brakes (while flying) anyway.



Yeah I mean I'm all for banning people from driving an Airbus on public roads. And Boeings, Bombardiers, Leers, and every other FBW airplane. We should probably extend this to all planes though, just to be safe.




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