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I hate fly-by-wire. I always will. It's just bad.
We used to prank the guy in HS who's parent bought him a BMW by putting a laminated card between his pedal cluster and the contact.
It's trash.
Drive by wire - where the accelerator pedal is connected to the throttle electronically - is separate from these electronic doors with hidden and nonintuitive "emergency" interior release handles.
There's nothing wrong with a drive by wire accelerator.
I see your point but more complex systems use fly by wire. The question here is there the mitagations when things go wrong. The shuttle was compleatly fly by wire, apart from the Undercarriage as there was no way to retract if they where accidentally opened in space.
I think drive by wire is pretty good. When I was learning stick, the car would regularly increase the accelerator to keep it from stalling.