Drive-by-wire, was: Scott's indecision (long)

[Ti Kan]

Per Lindgren writes:
> Tom Nas wrote:
> > PS Tess: a car-nut friend and I were recently discussing our top-10
> > automotive horrors. We agreed on one thing: drive-by-wire on the new Alfa
> > 166. :-)
> 
> Is there anything significantly different between the drive-by-wire in the Alfa
> compared to the system used in Audi/VW? I'm not sure I follow here....

I don't know what's actually so bad about the Alfa's drive-by-wire,
but I understand that on the Alfas with the manu-matic shifter,
the ECU will actually blip the throttle briefly during shift.  Sort
of cool...  Don't know how it works in practice, though; since I never
drove one.

-Ti
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