Good point. You could have the same steering rack at the rear, and rely on an ECU to control it all. And then you could have a button to press that would point all 4 wheels at 90 degrees for sideways parking.

 

£20 says my missus could still kerb my alloys...

 

Great idea barring the drive to the wheels issue!

Of course, Honda already had the 4WS steer with the Prelude and it was very good indeed.

 

Great idea barring the drive to the wheels issue!

Of course, Honda already had the 4WS steer with the Prelude and it was very good indeed.
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Electric motors in the hub, every wheel is independent and combined with 4ws you could turn the car in its own axis. Cool...

 

It could also help if you hold the steering wheel straight, due to it not being connected it wont get pushed around in your hand on a bumpy road meaning the car reads you have the wheel straight, so holds the front wheels straight over the bumps rather than letting them get pushed left and right?

 

£20 says my missus could still kerb my alloys...
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It's faaaaar easier to kerb the rears with 4WS, if you think about it. I think the Nissan 4AWS & Honda PAWS systems dispense with the easy-park facility, because most fine it harder to park with it! You can tie yourself in knots round the back bumper of the car in front, until you get the hang of it.

But yes, the principle of 4WS is essentially DBW; front and rear angle sensors, a speed sensor, a rate of steering wheel movement sensor and an algorithm to sort out the required input for the rear rack. A far cry from the clever mechanical 4WS of the 3G 'Lude! It wouldn't have been a massive leap to lob out the hydraulics in favour of an electric front rack, too.

 

How long till tuners offer to load you up the 911 feel steering program

 

Or they fit a smaller steering wheel.

 

Did SAAB not have system that was controlled by a Joy stick for steering, obviously a DBW system.

Now there are not an awful lot of aeroplanes flying around with FBW but we keep hearing of software problems etc with those, so what will happen when millions of Nissan's ( Incorporating Renault Electronic's ) hit the road, It just might like an evening on the dodgems at the local fair !!

 

Quantify what you mean by not a lot. All modern Airbuses are FBW and there plenty of them flying around. Last year they made up 64% of the market sales and since the year 2000 they have had made roughly the same amount of sales Boeing.

Yes there have been one or 2 high profile cases like the A320 chainsaw incident, but there are also plenty of incidents of 737s going down.

I have handled literally thousands of these aircraft and have never once encountered a FBW related incident.