He added that the aircraft would be able to continue without the fly-by-wire system.
In 2004 Mercedes-Benz faced customers complaints that its Sensotronic brake-by-wire system - which used an electrical link to control vehicles' brake pads - sometimes failed.
Unlike other aircraft where the pilot's controls are manually attached to the flaps and rudders, Airbus 330 airliners are equipped with a "fly by wire" system that sends electronic signals from an onboard computer to move key control surfaces.
We're not sure why they didn't just connect a wire between this system and the built-in GPS and backup cam, which would obviously have been the only step necessary in making this Benz all Total Recall and stuff.
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The New Yorkers, in turn, will use the Federal Reserve's clearing system to wire the money to a correspondent bank in Memphis.
At the show, Netgear showed the VueZone wire-free home monitoring system (with add-on night-vision camera).
Posing as money launderers, DEA agents picked up bags of cash from the bad guys at hotels and parking lots and sent the funds into the U.S. financial system after getting wire transfer instructions from money brokers.
Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.
People who remain outside the banking system often fall prey to predatory lenders and to the high charges levied by wire-transfer services, with little recourse when they are abused.
Instead of jamming electrons through wire, generators convert them to microwave signals and fling these along the surface of the earth, between a system of relays spaced about 20 or 30 miles apart.
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