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DB12 Review; Mercedes going for Yoke; Sporty Luxury or vice-versa - TST#839

The Smoking Tire

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The Importance of Variable Ratio Steering

Mercedes is actually putting the horse before the cart, and then telling you about the cart later. If they go fleet wide level three, and then they start taking the normal steering wheels away with full steer by wire, at least that's the correct order. The probable variable ratio steering where you're never designed to go more than 90 degrees is going to be an inherent limit to where you can't go more. But if they put artificial limits to steering angle based on, well, it has to work with this 90 degrees to 90 degrees at this given speed, there will be a limit beyond which you will no longer have control.

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