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Old 06-27-2012, 12:44 AM   #106 (permalink)
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I have read that many cars are having now electrical assisted steering, which more or less is not assisted at highway speed, it is mostly parking aid. Maybe they have put in system where assist comes on when you turn wheel quickly while braking, they put clever things to cars these days.

That old fashion hydraulic assists is probably dying in near future.

VW has even system that parks car automatically, turns wheel and all that, you just press the button or something like that, fancy things that electrical steering assists makes possible, maybe bit too fancy.

Anyway, electrical assist, I think in almost all cars is such that it is not assisting very much at speed and it does not take much of any juice, so that is probably ok equipment.
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