Throttle-by-Wire

[Bernd Felsche]

Tony Bryant tapped away at the keyboard with:

> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:20, you wrote:
> > > Never mind the control loop problems.  The FAILURE modes
> > > are so difficult to define, and the consequences are so scary,
> > > I wouldn't own any kind of vehicle using throttle-by-wire.
> > > The only way to come close to practical is with multiple
> > > redundant systems, and that is another whole science.

> > > Bruce (redundant phone systems) Roe

> What about cruise control? That has the same failure modes.
> Everybody used to be really scared of that, but nobody now
> seems to care.

Cruise control can usually be disabled and the car driven without
it. I say usually, but it's now common to have TBW with cruise
integrated as software.

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