you know how in video games you press an input key and your character starts clipping through things or the camera malfunctions... or you walk into something and get stuck in a wall or just spring right into the sky?

they wanna put that into IRL cars now. no direct control over the parts, but only through software intermediaries...

We're talking bugs, cheats, DLC, or something else? From the description it sounded like one of the first two.

But that's already how it works... e.g. power steering, but at least if that fails you can still control the car...

Bounding box cheat code?

Power steering works by using a hydraulic or electric system to multiply the force you apply to the steering wheel. It's pure electric physics. No interface with software codes.

I can't fathom the obsession of including software into vehicles these days. I love my 10+ years car and motorbike. Every parts are apparent, and many parts are self serviceable.

@daniel-wu yup. Ultimately it means that bugs become a hell lot of fun.
"The steering wheel software glitched out, lol!"

If it's good enough for the A320 it's good enough for consumer cars. Cars have been spontaneously combusting for a century. The reason old cars are so much more reliable is that all the ones that were gonna self-destruct had decades to do so.

If you want new cars to be more reliable, restore funding and power to your impotent theatrical regulation agencies. It's been working for the German automotive industry. Powerful enough though they are to influence foreign policy, they're still afraid of safety regulation.

Actually never mind that stuff about regulation, when Diesel first came into mass production at Audi, owners were advised to keep all luggage in the trunk so that they could escape quicker if it started smoking before it would explode, which it did, regularly. That wasn't an analog-digital problem, but I can't believe they were allowed in cities for years afterwards.

Doesn't sound good. Here is the lol image to go with it:

https://ibb.co/rGXs50W3