Steer-by-wire technology from Schaeffler-Paravan has removed the need for a steering column and is now being refined in the DTM Those involved predict the technology could change car design forever, as james_newbold explains ⬇️
It doesn’t take an engineer to recognise that racing cars have changed a great deal since the dawn of automobile racing. In regard to safety, modern cars are virtually unrecognisable. But many core tenets of those very earliest racers have remained the same, even as the rise of electrification and the push towards automation has brought increased complexity.
“People can also drive a wheelchair with a joystick, why shouldn’t that also be possible with a car?” says Arnold, who started Paravan in 1998. He has since built a “holistic” package that includes its PR50 wheelchair that can be used as a seat, a lift device to help disabled people get into their cars, and the so-called Space Drive system – of which steer-by-wire is a part – which also allows the brakes and transmission to be controlled electronically.
“I’m completely relaxed when the cars are running on-track,” says Huegle, who was first introduced to the technology while at HWA and working on the hydrogen-powered HYRAZE League concept that featured steer-by-wire. “This is a proven technology.” Arnold adds: “Space Drive 3 will provide the technological basis for the development of an integrated system. This is the prerequisite for every OEM when they install the system in series production of future vehicle generations.”
Huegle says: “To optimise the product from a lightness [perspective], this is a base development step, so we did this for sure. One of the bigger steps is to transfer the feeling, what the driver feels normally via their steering column, via an ECU in data to the driver. This is the technology we develop and there is a big step between last year’s software and this year’s software. The development out of these datas, it’s the biggest benefit.
Having sampled the system for himself before signing up to run steer-by-wire in 2021, Muecke believes it brings “a clear advantage for the driver” on certain tracks. The 2013 Spa 24 Hours winner says development on the force feedback is “improving all the time” and that the project’s primary focus now is on fine-tuning small details.
“One of the advantages of our system is that even by mapping switches I can change the ratio,” Huegle explains, “so the flexibility of the system is incredible.”
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