[AT] OT was runaway cars/now "electronic steering"

[Mattias Kessén]

The Saab JAS 39 Gripen (Griffin) is impossible to fly without
computers because of it's construction. Most cars on the other hand
doesn't need that. Segway's must be close to Gripen in that matter.

Mattias

2010/2/3 Chuck Bealke <bealke at airmail.net>:
> Ron,
>
> If my sieve of a memory is to be trusted, leading edge military fighters
> are so difficult to control during evasive maneuvers that they could not
> be flown without fly-by-wire and other chips.  But I wonder if
> commercial aircraft have or need defenses built into fly-by-wire and
> other control electronics against local EMP weapons.  One hears that
> police are now firing such techie guns to disable cars of bad guys.  A
> news article last week listed one that will reach out 656 feet.  I
> suspect modern chip-filled phones and other machines may be vulnerable
> to some of these weapons, but at least our favorite pre-60s or 70s
> tractors should be immune - unless they have been converted to
> electronic ignition.
>
> Chuck Bealke
> Dallas, TX
>
>
>
>
> On 2/2/2010 11:25 PM, Ron Cook wrote:
>> Military aircraft can get by with the fly-by-wire.  Volunteers are
>> flying them with parachutes on and if you throw the airplane away, it
>> gets replaced.;-)  There has been much trouble here and there with the
>> Airbus.  Just not published much.  Except the first one that went in the
>> trees at the airshow.
>>
>> I had to look for a long time to find a good mechanical semi to buy.  I
>> don't like the feel of the throttle on the electronic versions.  The
>> computer does do a good job of controlling the engine though.  When it
>> works.
>>
>> Ron Cook
>> Salix, IA
>>
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