Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell
by mitthrowaway2 on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:30PM
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> 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
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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.
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.