I absolutely abhor the headlight design on Teslas. Whichever engineering team that designed them should be roped for making something that blinds opposite traffic.
It never made sense for Bentley or Rolls-Royce to go all-electric. They make GT cars which are comfy and fast cars meant for doing a "grand tour" aka a continent-spanning road trip, literally the exact thing that EVs suck the most at.
At the very least they should make a supple and plushy hybrid with insane EV capabilities. Seeing a Rolls Royce with gobs of torque and 900 miles range on a single tank + charge would differentiate it from your regular long wheelbase plushy European saloons (7 series, S class, A
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You dont understand, cybertruck is steer by wire. It is literally 'fly by wire for cars' which you seem to assume it isnt
I still don't understand how this isn't illegal. Some government agency, not MSHA because it includes agricultural equipment, requires offroad equipment with a top speed over 30 mph to have a backup system if it has fully hydraulic steering. Most manufacturers use a pump that becomes ground driven if engine dies.
Tesla basically just does whatever it feels like until they fuck up too many times and get held accountable. Then lolberts start squalling about BIG GUBMINT getting in the way of true innovation.
Pretty much. Half (or more) of the "muh innovation" are just ideas others have tried/thought about, but discarded for being dumb.
There's no legislation about pure drive by wire steering probably because all the other auto manufacturers have experimented with it in the past and have realized it's an idiotic idea that goes against rational engineering design. The lack of having any such steer by wire product on the market didn't give need for it to be regulated is my guess.
Do those vehicles that have eear wheel steering do drive by wire for the rear wheels?
Both of these entail treating the driver like a retarded gorilla nigger, and if I evaluate musk's actions in isolation then it seems like he has directed his engineers to take away all the freedom cars once offered.
Yup. Let's replace it with a system that would actually cause more danger in a failure because there's no manual backup (if I understand correctly) to save people a bit of hassle on actually having to learn how to drive properly.
Four wheel steering has been a thing since the 80s and there are both purely mechanical and electromechanical mechanisms implemented to make it work. For the mechanical ones, Nissan's first gen HICAS literally plumbed another set of hydraulic lines from the power steering pump all the way to rear steering rack. The 80s Honda Prelude Si used a steering shaft and cleverly designed rear rack for its system. GM's Quadrasteer is what you could call steer by wire as its rear axle is actuated by a pair of solenoids. Current day Porsche, Benz, BMW, Acura all use variations of solenoid actuated rear steering systems since they're simpler to make and package. However, the thing is if the rear axle steering were to fail, usually the ECM will simple deactivate the actuators in a defined state and disable the rear steering in its entirety. Quadrasteer is designed that way and I'm sure all the others are too. That system failing doesn't render the car unsteerable though.
That's basically what a steering rack and its ratios do. Many racks have variable ratios to do what you stated, which can be both mechanically built into the rack gears or be controlled by a motor in the steering wheel connected to a sort of locking clutch.
