In a video documenting his experience, Entrepreneur Thomas Remo picked up his £64815.22 ($82,000) electric vehicle (EV) in Irvine, California. Remo’s excitement turned sour when the truck “broke not even six inches off the lot” and “failed another 30 times” throughout the first day.
Small GA aircraft don’t use FBW systems because of weight, they do however use hybrid systems that don’t weigh as much. I have a lot of faith in engineers doing their job…that being said I have little faith the C-suites that run the show. In all honesty with the level of automated driving tech drive by wire is the least scary thing to me.
As a software engineer, I don’t own any car made after 2008 (in part) because I don’t trust the programming in modern cars. My objection is more about what the developers programmed on purpose – e.g. this – than bugs they may have introduced by mistake, but still, I’m not really a fan of any computerized nanny functions that are more complicated than ABS.
On a related note, this XKCD applies to more than just voting software.