Steer by wire sounds like a disastrous idea to me, especially in a car made with attention to detail of Tesla.
I'm not even sure where to start. It's less reliable, surely it must be (at least without significant investment into QA and redundancy). A physical wheel physically connected to bits turning the wheels, well, the power steering can do, but you can still turn the thing.
Then, it's all software driven. And it can't be air-gapped, because surely the various driver assistance programs need to turn the wheel. But so if the crappy OTA-updated software crashes, I can't steer? Or steering reverts, or who knows what.
Finally, I'm not holding my breath on a new membership option including "you can steer your car again".
I'm no Luddite, I'm keen for what technology can do for us, but some places I don't want it.
I'm not even sure where to start. It's less reliable, surely it must be (at least without significant investment into QA and redundancy). A physical wheel physically connected to bits turning the wheels, well, the power steering can do, but you can still turn the thing.
Then, it's all software driven. And it can't be air-gapped, because surely the various driver assistance programs need to turn the wheel. But so if the crappy OTA-updated software crashes, I can't steer? Or steering reverts, or who knows what.
Finally, I'm not holding my breath on a new membership option including "you can steer your car again".
I'm no Luddite, I'm keen for what technology can do for us, but some places I don't want it.