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Tesla power steering probe upgraded after thousands more incidents reported

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> In multiple instances, complainants said they were able to remedy the situation by turning their Muskmobile off and on again, but the fix was temporary and only a steering rack replacement was able to fully resolve the issue.

Nice to see professional journalism standards are alive and well.

You must not be familiar with The Register. This has been its editorial voice since day one. It's equally derogatory to all subjects.

Yup, I've worked for a small UK company which was on the receiving end of the Reg's reporting; this is pretty tame compared to what they said about us.

This isn't really a story other than Tesla.

Exactly. This kind of thing happens to other manufacturers all the time.

If you google "ford power steering recall" for example.

You're literally saying "this shouldn't be a story just because Tesla" by ... pointing to a litany of examples of "stories where it's NotTesla".

IOW it's not a story because Tesla... it's just another vehicle recall story.

Maybe replacing the steering column, a 6lb steel shaft, with drive by wire at a cost 10lbs of rare earth magnets, 50lbs of copper, 10 computer chips, many position sensors, and 150k lines of code was a bad idea.

Even with a broken wheel I was able to steer to a safe side of the road. It's scary to think of how the Tesla or any electric car with drive by wire would react in that scenario.

I think the only vehicle with steer-by-wire is the Cybertruck. This is plain old bad engineering.

Infiniti has been doing steer-by-wire for over a decade.

With a steering column backup. Cybertruck is the first without the column to spear you in an accident.

Any car. Doesn’t have to be electric.

The vehicles affected were not drive by wire. It sounds like you are referring to a system in the Cybertrunk, but this article is discussing Model 3 and Model Y which do not have a physical steering column.

He means "maybe there was more to the simplicity of the steering column" i.e maybe Tesla shouldn't have been so hasty to remove.

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