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On electronic injection systems, there is no longer a load lever that mechanically controls the fuelling. The flow is calculated by the ECM depending on a number of parameters, including pedal position, which is measured using a potentiometer. The absence of a mechanical link between the accelerator pedal and the injection system presents a risk of loss of control of the engine in the event of a failure of the component in charge of providing the driver's request information to the injection system. The pedal sensor therefore has two potentiometers whose slides aremechanically solid. The two potentiometers are supplied from distinct and different power sources so there is built in redundancy of information giving reliable driver's request information.

A voltage is generated across the potentiometer in the acceleration position sensor as a function of the accelerator-pedal setting. Using a programmed characteristic curve, the pedal's position is then calculated from this voltage.