Electric power steering?

What happens when these units fail?!?
I agree that the electric steering can have a bad road feel. With electronics encoding and decoding the position, some hesitation will always be an issue. With a direct mechanical link, this is not an issue unless you have slop in the parts.
Our daily drivers are a Civic and a Sonata. The Civic got it right. Nice tight,responsive and predictable steering. The Hyunday did not. It steers like my 96 Ram Diesel. Very sluggish and inconsistant. A lot of steering wheel turn for very little action of the front wheels turning. Then they had the nerve to put paddle shifters on it!