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A comment on Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11. Parent comment

Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by sk5t on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @08:31PM (#11493491)
A minor point, but the electronic accelerator control in autos is called "throttle-by-wire."
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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by dfox on Thursday April 14, 2016 @08:20AM (#11496000)
I've always seen that called EPC for Electronic Pedal Control, but that is probably VW-ism.

On the other hand on EFI car, having mechanical throttle cable does not add much to hack-safety as the ECU always has some way to override closed throttle (either disengaging throttle pedal mechanically switches the control of throttle to ECU operated servo or there is completely separate throttle controlled by ECU).

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