Electromechanical Valve Actuator for Variable Valve Timing

Most exciting article I've read about it yet. Would open up a new frontier in engine design. I'm wondering if such engines should be made non-interference and what one loses from that. If they were interference seems like one software burp and the engine is junk.

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