Abstract: A wear and temperature sensor of a braking member of a vehicle includes detection electric circuits arranged in an ordered sequence. Each circuit includes a wear detector, and a subset of the circuits includes a temperature detector. Resistance values of the circuits are sensed and an N-bit binary sequence is produced, N being the number of circuits. The bits of the N-bit binary sequence are orderly associated, from a most to a least significant bit, to the ordered sequence of the circuits. Each bit of the sequence takes on the value “1” if the corresponding circuit is electrically continuous and the value “0” if the corresponding circuit is electrically interrupted. In the N-bit binary sequence, the most significant bit amongst those with the value “1” is identified, and the wear degree of the braking element is determined as a function of a position of the identified bit in the binary sequence.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling a balance of a moving motor vehicle whose pitching motion when overcoming an unevenness of the road is corrected by means of an acceleration and/or a deceleration of the vehicle by a value correlated to a level of unevenness of the road. The level of unevenness is detected by monitoring the road ahead of the moving vehicle and the pitching motion is predictively corrected based on such monitoring.