Once again, tell the mechanically-challenged journalism major that wrote this:
...key components in fly-by-wire systems, which use computers and wires instead of mechanics and hydraulics to control a plane's flight.
The statement speaks for itself.
I would call him an intellectually challenged journo. He’s not entirely wrong, but he’s also not entirely right.
I’d have slapped him down if he wrote that in a system cert plan! (I’m in system certification for the aerospace industry).