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Originally Posted by Mister
I'm going to guess not good things. The car is drive by wire, is it not?
In what case would you want to unplug the sensor?
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It has electric assist, not quite drive by wire, which I assume you mean steer by wire since drive is ambiguous (gas? brakes? clutch?).
Basically in the Toyobaru an electric motor is attached to the steering shaft that helps you turn the wheel, similar to hydraulic power steering systems if it fails you can still turn the wheels it just takes a lot more effort to do so.
I know Nissan is the leader in steer by wire systems but just found out they have it on the streets already:
http://gizmodo.com/what-its-like-to-...ire-1501915995
The failsafe is a clutch that decouples the steering wheel from the actual input shaft, if there is a failure in the system the clutch engages the two shafts together and you have 'standard' steering again.