How Tesla Cybertruck's Steer-by-Wire System Works

As posted to the Munro Live YouTube Channel on 4/24/2024 (Run Time 18 min, 42 sec) Sandy Munro and Armin von Czarnowski demonstrate how steer-by-wire works and examine the components that make it possible in the Cybertruck. Steer-by-wire differs significantly from a normal steering system in that there is no mechanical linkage between the steering wheel and the front wheels. While it may appear perilous to you, it is worth noting that Tesla vehicles are equipped with numerous redundancies. (This is Blog Post #1575) Sandy Munro is an automotive engineer who specializes in machine tools and manufacturing. He joined the Ford Motor Company in 1978 and then started his own consulting company, Munro & Associates, which specializes in lean design, tearing down automotive products to study and suggest improvements and...

Tesla Model S Propulsion is Explained As posted by Learn Engineering on 5/30/17 https://youtu.be/3SAxXUIre28 I recently had Solar City (the solar energy subsidiary of Tesla, Inc.) over to my house to discuss solar panels.  Besides the fact that they could do everything that was impossible for ever other solar company I had spoken with, I had the opportunity to drive the rep's Tesla Model S.  As a dyed in the wool manual transmission guy, I was not expecting to like it . . . but boy was I wrong.  Most notably: The unresponsive and otherwise problematic shifting of automatic transmissions is a non-issue here because there is only one gear so-to-say. Difficulties in using down shifting to brake the car, particularly with continuously variable transmission vehicles, is also a non-issue. ...