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Re:Electric car battery prices are going back down faster th... by m463 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:14AM (#39774838)
that's assisted brakes.

<thing>-by-wire means there is a control with no physical connection to <thing>.

for example, older tesla cars can steer themselves, but the steering wheel still connects to the front wheels mechanically.

The newer cybertruck has a steer-by-wire. The wheels are turned side to side by motors, but the steering wheel is not mechanically hooked to it, it's just an electronic controller.

Re:Electric car battery prices are going back down faster th... by ssl-3 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:53PM (#39781146)
It sounds more like brake-by-wire alongside a regular brake pedal.
Re:Electric car battery prices are going back down faster th... by pests on Thursday March 21, 2024 @09:54PM (#39786691)
The one-pedal though is only a mechanical assistance to the existing connection between the brake pedal and the brake. Maybe we're splitting hairs, but its more akin to power steering.
Re:Electric car battery prices are going back down faster th... by ssl-3 on Friday March 22, 2024 @03:53AM (#39788323)
With [traditional] power-assisted steering, there is always a direct mechanical connection between the wheel and the steering box/rack. It's assisted, usually hydraulically, but it is not isolated by a wire; that direct mechanical connection is always there.

With [traditional] power-assisted brakes, there is always a direct connection between the pedal doing the braking and the wheel cylinders. It's assisted (usually, but not always, by vacuum), but that direct mechanical connection is always there.

With one-pedal driving that only uses exactly one pedal, there is never a direct mechanical connection between that singular pedal and the braking system. That connection is only electrical; there is no direct mechanical (or hydraulic, to split hairs) connection at all. It is entirely brake-by-wire, unless one chooses to place a foot on the brake pedal and thereby do something other than one-pedal driving.

Thus: Unless there's hydraulics connected to the accelerator pedal, then: As long as mechanical braking (pads-on-rotors friction) can be performed in one-pedal mode (and it can be), then one-pedal mode must perform braking-by-wire.

We're already there; people use brake-by-wire every day. (That we also have a functional hydraulic brake pedal as a backup does not mean that brake-by-wire is not a thing in one-pedal mode.)