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I have some friends that work in a variety of positions on older boats in the maritime industry, and are quite skeptical about upgrades to drive by wire systems.

They also generally aren't technically advanced, so I'm wondering what the extent of training they'd consume outside of highly technical roles - if it is really value adding, or your typical corporate security training "don't click phishing links".




To be clear, ships have been using drive by _wire_ systems for decades. Even in WW2 rudder control on liberty ships was partially electronic: https://surveyship.blogspot.com/2015/09/liberty-ship-or-vict...

Of course, there's a _very_ big difference between a drive-by-wire system that has a set of dedicated electric wires with some simple communication scheme, and a networked, potentially hackable, system based on UDP packets.


Fly / steer by wire is not necessarily hackable. But the temptation to make everything UDP packets might be too strong in some industries.




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