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Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by culopatin on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:51PM (#39598926)
Experimenting? It’s been around for a long time. My 1999 Jetta had it. It’s smoother and you can control the fuel adder on throttle opening from all angles. Sure, it’s not instant, but stabbing the gas in a non dbw is not great either. In electric cars there is no other way than dbw
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Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by AsmaraHolding on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:04PM (#39599010)
A 1999 Jetta doesn't have steer-by-wire. Wikipedia says the first production car to have it was the 2013 Nissan Infiniti Q50.
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Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by maxdo on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:59PM (#39599262)
It had duplicated mechanics
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Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by culopatin on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:41AM (#39599846)
Well I see what you mean. Steer by wire is part of drive by wire if you want to be specific. But before that was a thing “drive by wire” meant a throttle body controller by the ECU.m for many years. So if you go to a shop and say DBW what the other end hears is “stepper throttle”
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Re:European crash tester says carmakers must bring back phys... by gonzo41 on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:05PM (#39599016)
It's be really cool if there were some giant high power potentiometer connected directly from the batter to the motors in an EV. Just smash the pedal, see a blast of plasma and you take off. Just like slot cars. I can't see a single downside to this :p
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