anyone had one, good or bad, what level of cover did you have?
what are the cons?
what are the cons?
the garage i am looking at a van with say it comes with one of these warranties. its chain driven cam and automatic gearbox
it has the [FONT="]G-Tronic+ box are they as good a the older ones?[/FONT]If it is a Mercedes Sprinter, the autobox is very strong, used by most of the supermarkets, with few failures, although if it does fail, it will cost lots. Vito auto is slightly less strong.
it has the [FONT="]G-Tronic+ box are they as good a the older ones?[/FONT]
There is no physical steering column. Wheel to rack is 'fly-by-wire'. Slightly worrying.
Steering is very light, takes a bit of getting used to.
There is no physical steering column. Wheel to rack is 'fly-by-wire'. Slightly worrying.
Originally, power steering systems had to be capable of steering the car when power was lost. They were heavy, but could be done.I thought the law still required there to be a physical connection between steering wheel and steering rack. It's academic these days because some are so heavily assisted that trying to turn the wheel without help is difficult to say the least.
Shows how much I know -
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...ponent-vehicle-type--geography-300667048.html
It frightens me too, but all I've driven so far are well-maintained supermarket vehicles, or nearly new hire vehicles. Training company drivers will probably keep me away from the ancient ones.this scares the crap out of me, i'd prefer the vibration, its bad enough when your battery gets old and electric pas goes off, whats going to happen when this system goes wrong? big repair bill or scrapping a not very old car i guess.
does the V class have fly by wire?
I don't know about the Vito, but the last one I drove had lighter steering than the previous one, so it might now have. All I can suggest is grovel under the dash and see if it has a column.
I've asked on a W447 facebook page and no one has replied, its been 4 days now
Scares me too! Interestingly I notice that, well down in the article, they mention the possibility of these systems being "hacked". That sounds even more scary?
Scares me too! Interestingly I notice that, well down in the article, they mention the possibility of these systems being "hacked". That sounds even more scary?
VW has a fields full of ID3 electric cars because they can't get the computers right and nobody though to include over-the-air updates. The stuff laptops and phones have done for decades.
Tesla on the other hand has 3 billion miles of driving data on its computers and image processing hardware they designed when they moved on from Nvidia kit. They'll get self driving working long before Big Auto have even sussed out how to get a reasonable mileage out of the battery.
Waymo and whoever else working with Lidar are not even close. they have huge computing power in the car and it still can't handle traffic islands.
The difference is Tesla are doing it with visual processing and working out what's going on. The others are constructing 3D maps (that will never be good enough to be safe) for the car to blindly follow.
Still trying to work out why DaveMcT is ranting about teslas and Lidar and such
Would it not be right to say that there is massive redundancy built into systems in planes? Lot's of "stuff" has to all fail together before it drops out the sky? Unless, of course, the software isn't configured correctly and makes the darned thing stall like on Boeing's recent 737 MAX!Almost every plane you get in now is fly by wire with no physical connection between the controls and the control surfaces, therefore do you worry every time you get in a plane about sudden loss of controls.