[jauntywundrkind]

Younger me thought drive-by-wire was awesome. But now I'm aghast at all these systems. Because of feedback. Because yiu no longer have the tactile data to form a understanding & relationship with your 1.5 tons of rolling metal. Digitization strips of affordances that mechanical naturally provides, leaves us adrift in at best simulation of response.

The threads here seem dominated by questions like how reliable will this be (probably quite), how much weight will this save (not a lot, but it enables design flexibility).

Feedback though... That's really the key thing most users are going to experience as different. And it seems so unlikely that the user will have anywhere near as much accurate timely feedback as the mechanical systems it's designed to replace.

Even if initial models may layer in a variety of sensors to simulate feedback, it seems likely to be reduced over time, to be cost-downed.