It depends on the vehicle but that's a pretty good threshold to where it really became ubiquitous. Drive by wire and infotainment systems digitize every aspect of the vehicles operation. Before you'd have a physical throttle cable attached to the accelerator, rack and pinion system directly connected to the steering wheel, etc. These days all the vehicles functions are governed by the vehicle's ECU. When you mash down the brake pedal it sends a digital signal with the threshold to the ECU who in turn tells the brakes to apply. This was done ostensibly to allow greater levels of drivers aids like traction, stability control, and more recently smart cruise control and self parking.
However this has been used to attack dissidents by black ops. Michael Hastings used to be the most clear cut example. These capabilities were uncovered by Snowden's leaks and independently corroborated by 3rd parties:
Don't own vehicles with drive by wire made after 2011, folks. At least then they have to use a different vehicle to target you instead of your own.
what is this drive by wire? Are all vehicles post-2011 included?
It depends on the vehicle but that's a pretty good threshold to where it really became ubiquitous. Drive by wire and infotainment systems digitize every aspect of the vehicles operation. Before you'd have a physical throttle cable attached to the accelerator, rack and pinion system directly connected to the steering wheel, etc. These days all the vehicles functions are governed by the vehicle's ECU. When you mash down the brake pedal it sends a digital signal with the threshold to the ECU who in turn tells the brakes to apply. This was done ostensibly to allow greater levels of drivers aids like traction, stability control, and more recently smart cruise control and self parking.
However this has been used to attack dissidents by black ops. Michael Hastings used to be the most clear cut example. These capabilities were uncovered by Snowden's leaks and independently corroborated by 3rd parties:
https://youtu.be/MK0SrxBC1xs
https://youtu.be/gzav1K5KSI4
I would just add that electronic throttle was very common by 2005. Conventional steering and brakes are still fairly common.