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As future drive-by-wire systems have no mechanical fallback level, the increased safety requirements need to be met by software-based solutions. The task of the software is to provide services in the field of fault detection and compensation as well as control of redundant hardware structures. Particularly the implementation of fault detection and error correction avoids fatal output of drive-by-wire control units caused by erroneous input signals. This article describes the implementation of a module compensating faults in the input signals of a vehicle function, which controls the longitudinal dynamics of a truck. The error correction is achieved by means of data fusion. Sensing units consisting of the sensor as well as the preprocessing unit often are provided by external suppliers. In some cases information regarding the characteristics of their output data written on the CAN bus is not available.