Today we’ve started the planning for the X-by-wire Box 2012. Last week someone said to me:

Whats that Box for? Sensing the pedals with such a big box? You must be crazy carrying that Box in your car around.

Sure, he is a combustion engine mechanic and he did not know that drive by wire systems must be safe in a way, that its fail-safe in every situation. In the car with combustion engine its the same as it was build in my VW Käfer: Bowden Cable back to engine. Not very innovative, but cheap and functional. In the electric driven car we need a extra micocontroller for that pedal “measurements”…

Mechanics always want to build a light car, you know. So that’s my job this year, building up a new X-by-Wire Box, same functionality but smaller and lighter has to be the slogan.

Challenge accepted!