Electronic communication has played such a significance that electronic comprises of 70 percent of systems in vehicles. The remaining 30 percent is mechanical components. Almost all safety relevant systems communicate via CAN or Flexray Bus. Our vehicle that we drive with approximately 150 ECUs have already made thousands, tens of thousands decisions for us by collecting tens of thousands of signals from various sensors.
When we try driving a very old vehicle ( like a model produced in 1980s) and another vehicle produced in 2019 and compare the two driving experiences, we are baffled by how people could drive these “really old” vehicles, and realize how little effort we put into “driving” a vehicle (Who knows how you will feel after seeing the 100% self driving automobiles on the street and that the driving licenses you obtained many years ago do not have any value?)
My special advice is to place cones on a straight line at regular intervals and try slaloming in between the cones at different speeds with both vehicles. :) This will underline the importance of the saying “ Tool works, hand becomes proud of it.” Unfortunately, personally witnessed this during the test track of Bosch in Boxberg!
It is also vital to state that it is necessary to put extra effort into having an accident while…
