{"id":351572,"date":"2018-03-10T09:41:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T08:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-virtual-should-cars-be\/"},"modified":"2018-03-10T09:41:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T08:41:12","slug":"how-virtual-should-cars-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/how-virtual-should-cars-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How Virtual Should Cars Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-675447\">\n<div class=\"clearfix post-info\">\n<p class=\"authors\"> By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/eric-peters\/?ptype=article\" title=\"Posts by Eric Peters\" rel=\"author\">Eric Peters<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"attribution\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericpetersautos.com\">Eric Peters Autos<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">March 10, 2018<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-content clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Non-Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Driving a\u00a0<em>simulated<\/em>\u00a0car \u2013 as in a game \u2013 is becoming more and more like driving an actual car \u2013 in\u00a0<em>reality<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At least in terms of the inputs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The car in the game is steered remotely, via a gamepad. You accelerate and brake the car the same way. Soon real cars will be accelerated and braked the same way.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Many already are, at least as far as acceleration. They have drive-by-wire<em>\u00a0t<\/em>hrottle control. Your foot does not actually control the acceleration of the vehicle. A\u00a0<em>computer<\/em>\u00a0controls the acceleration of the vehicle. It assesses data it receives from sensors that are connected to the accelerator pedal, but there is no physical connection between your foot and the throttle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The good news is the throttle cable can\u2019t stick with drive-by-wire. There is no throttle cable. The bad news is that the computer can \u201cstick\u201d \u2013 accelerating the car even though you haven\u2019t pushed down on the accelerator pedal. Even if you\u2019ve taken your foot off the accelerator pedal entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The car industry denies this happens but there is more than a little evidence that it does or at least, has \u2013 and regardless, the fact is it can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The problem is \u2013 what to do about it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Which brings up related questions about other forms of drive-by-wire, including drive-by-wire brakes and steering, both of which are more than speculative problems. They are both in the works, part of the technical development of automated cars \u2013 which (ultimately) won\u2019t have steering wheels or brake pedals \u2013 or pedals at all, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But they are also being contemplated for non-automated cars; I.e., the cars we control. Except, we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/eric-peters\/how-virtual-should-cars-be\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Eric Peters Eric Peters Autos March 10, 2018 Driving a\u00a0simulated\u00a0car \u2013 as in a game \u2013 is becoming more and more like driving an actual car \u2013 in\u00a0reality. At least in terms of the inputs. The car in the game is steered remotely, via a gamepad. You accelerate and brake the car the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}