Toyota Pedal Issue Highlights Move To Electronics

cyclocommuter writes with an excerpt from a brief WSJ story on increasing electronic control of car components: "The gas pedal system used Toyota Motor Co.'s recall crisis was born from a movement in the auto industry to rely more on electronics to carry out a vehicle's most critical functions. The intricacy of such systems, which replace hoses and hydraulic fluid with computer chips and electrical sensors, has been a focus as Toyota struggled to find the cause for sudden acceleration of vehicles that led the company to halt sales of eight models this week."

Comments

Re: Shifting, braking, and emergency shutoff

[snikulin]

'kill -9 car' works just fine!
Everything else is for n00bs.

Re:Drive By Wire not really the problem

[TooMuchToDo]

Until you have actually driven a real horse drawn carriage, with no stupid mechanical parts isolating you, you haven't driven. Its a shame really. A new generation will never appreciate what its like to rumble down the road, windows down, with a roar from 6 mighty steads, and having to actually control powerful beasts of burden.

Fixed that for ya. Horses made way for internal combustion engines, and ICEs will make way for drive-by-wire electric cars. Thank goodness for progress.

Re: Shifting, braking, and emergency shutoff

[Max Littlemore]

'kill -9 car' works just fine!
Everything else is for n00bs.

Are you crazy!?!?

I tried that once and the skin on my arse has never been the same.

'kill -9 engine'