I’m with you, but playing devil’s advocate… A hydraulic brake line can be damaged in an accident as well. Simple brakes with a proportioning valve or similar mechanism likey doubles your redundancy for most failures of downstream brake components but that’s not guaranteed.
It does say electric motors are a part of the system which could be like the electronic parking brakes in many modern cars. Maybe they default to a closed/braking condition if power is lost?
I will not be the one risking my life or my family’s life or the lives of other families to be an early adopter of this tech, but it could work with rigorous engineering and testing.
Oh I’m with you there, but hydraulic hard lines and high pressure brake lines are thousands of times more rugged than electrical wires and cannot be rendered useless by software mistakes or operating system crashes.
The ABS controller, computer functions of a regular car can fail catastrophically, the vacuum system can be breached and made useless, but the hydraulic brake pedal is still capable of slowing a car to a stop.
Yeah! F1 cars and airplanes do it! Y’know, those vehicles that have certified mechanics double checking and repairing the systems literally every time they get used.
I’m not saying brake by wire is unreliable, but that’s just about the worst example you could give for reliability.
I’m with you, but playing devil’s advocate… A hydraulic brake line can be damaged in an accident as well. Simple brakes with a proportioning valve or similar mechanism likey doubles your redundancy for most failures of downstream brake components but that’s not guaranteed.
It does say electric motors are a part of the system which could be like the electronic parking brakes in many modern cars. Maybe they default to a closed/braking condition if power is lost?
I will not be the one risking my life or my family’s life or the lives of other families to be an early adopter of this tech, but it could work with rigorous engineering and testing.
Oh I’m with you there, but hydraulic hard lines and high pressure brake lines are thousands of times more rugged than electrical wires and cannot be rendered useless by software mistakes or operating system crashes. The ABS controller, computer functions of a regular car can fail catastrophically, the vacuum system can be breached and made useless, but the hydraulic brake pedal is still capable of slowing a car to a stop.
Depends 200% on how they (both) are designed, manufactured and installed.
Now do brake seal failure or brake line rupture.
Sorry dude, brake by wire is 25 years old, it’s found on every plane and F1 car and on road cars since 1999. They system is better and more reliable.
Yeah! F1 cars and airplanes do it! Y’know, those vehicles that have certified mechanics double checking and repairing the systems literally every time they get used.
I’m not saying brake by wire is unreliable, but that’s just about the worst example you could give for reliability.
and don’t tell him cars have had brake by wire systems since 2002.