Wayne, I agree with you 100%. All this electronic crap, sooner or later, will come back to haunt us. My experience is on the car/truck side of things, and while "drive-by-wire" electronic accelerator systems are in their early days, I'm waiting for "steer-by-wire" to come, as the manufacturers say it will. Without a mechanical backup, I can forsee a lot of potential liability problems when these systems foul up...as all systems eventually do.
Back in the 1980's, we wondered what we'd do when some of those elementary [by today's standards] ECM's became obsolete...and now we know: you park it and get something else. When it's a piece of equipment that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, you begin to appreciate the old stuff. But there's nothing that you or I can do about it, so I hope that venting now and then is as therapeutic for you as it is for me.
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