A lot of high end cars have "connected driver" packages, top of the range mercs, BMWs, and super-premium cars like Rolls Royce. Anything that takes a sim card will be logging location and other telemetry. You would expect Tesla to have it to allow software updates.
I wouldn't like it, I have a car with park assist and that makes me nervous because it means the steering wheel can be motorised by a hacker. I've never used it, but knowing the car could swerve itself at any time is not comforting.
A lot of newer cars are fully drive-by-wire and no mechanical controls are directly accessible by the driver. Accelerator pedal uses a rheostat, the steering wheel is an encoder that controls motors at the front wheels.
A lot of high end cars have "connected driver" packages, top of the range mercs, BMWs, and super-premium cars like Rolls Royce. Anything that takes a sim card will be logging location and other telemetry. You would expect Tesla to have it to allow software updates. I wouldn't like it, I have a car with park assist and that makes me nervous because it means the steering wheel can be motorised by a hacker. I've never used it, but knowing the car could swerve itself at any time is not comforting.
A lot of newer cars are fully drive-by-wire and no mechanical controls are directly accessible by the driver. Accelerator pedal uses a rheostat, the steering wheel is an encoder that controls motors at the front wheels.
Drive by wire is so bad that racing sims work hard to replicate the "old" and proper way of steering.
I don't think I'll ever be a fan.
Agreed.
Didn't something like that happen to Tiger Woods?