Dan D.
Desperately Seeking Sapience
With some CT owners now having apparent software issues with their steer-by-wire I wonder why you'd take "software bug" out of "lack of redundancy"? Shouldn't redundancy take software bugs into account? ie: what's the critical path to saving the truck if there is a software bug, surely there's another level of redundancy that needs to be added?Steering failure in a customer vehicle this year. What’s the over/under?
Very unlikely the failure will be due to lack of redundancy IMO. It will be a software bug if it happens.
I am curious how the power redundancy works. Are there two 48V batteries? Or maybe the HV battery and 48V can power the steering rack independently?
Because if the drivers didn't stop for the critical warning, would they in fact have experienced steering failure? Some conditions are very unsafe to stop - eg: on a highway bridge with no shoulders in the rain and dark. We are advised in BC to get off the bridge first, you will 80%+ be creamed if you stop for any reason on the highway bridge.