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Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell by ryandrake on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:57AM (#43002414)
It's ridiculous that any of these things need microcontrollers. My first car's door had a little joystick that physically moved the mirror around, presumably using pushrods or something. The door lock was a physical device you moved up and down, and had a motor connected (power door locks were fancy). It also had cranked window controls, not so nice. But power windows didn't need a computer either.

We keep taking things that worked fine without a computer, adding a computer, and ending up with all the problems of a computer but with little extra benefit to the user.

Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell by mitthrowaway2 on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:30PM (#43006664)
> presumably using pushrods

It was probably using stepper motors, with the pulse train being generated by a microcontroller.

Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell by amenhotep on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:07PM (#43007673)
No, there genuinely used to be purely mechanical mirror controls. You'd twiddle the little joystick and it would more or less adjust the mirror, in a way that at least in my experience was slightly imprecise and rubbish, but definitely didn't demand any electronics.