Ducati Cruise Control .. abandoning v1 and go straight to v2

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:00]Right, guys. Good news and bad news.

[00:00:04]We are stopping development or I am stopping development of the Ducati cruise control because of safety.

[00:00:11]All I wanted to do is to create a cruise control that would basically just get the signal from the throttle and then stick it in place. And if you touch it, it would deactivate, right? So, I recognize the safety implications with this and it's Yeah, it's quite gnarly somebody having stuck a throttle on on the motorway or on a highway. It's not a good idea.

[00:00:34]So, the good news is is that I've always planned as a version two to create a cruise control that will allow me to check CAN signals. CAN signals is basically a main network of the bike.

[00:00:50]Every single thing that you do goes through every single wire.

[00:00:54]And you can tell when throttle has been released, when it's it's been pulled physically. You can check all the brakes have been pushed, the clutch has been activated, what gear you're in, RPM, engine lean angle, literally every single detail that the bike is measuring is available on the CAN network.

[00:01:13]And today, I've managed to crack the brakes, the engine gear the gear the gear indicator, the side stand, the throttle, the indicators, the engine RPM, wheel wheel speed wheel speed, and some other systems that I managed to track. So, I am planning to release version two even before version one, a cruise control that is fully fully safe.

[00:01:45]I'll have multiple different controls in to check RPM, check speed, check wheel speed, check the signals both signals that come from a throttle. So, it's going to be one of those devices that pretty much bulletproof just like they do it OEM from the factory.

[00:02:02]Plugging in will be easy. Plug into your diagnostic port underneath the seat, and then plug the other one into the throttle in between the throttle and the ECU. And there you go. We'll be able to cut the throttle out or actually increase the throttle when you're going uphill or going downhill depending of your speed. But also safety measures like you touch anything on the bike, indicators, cuts the cruise control out.

[00:02:27]Lean angle is too far, cuts the cruise control out. Um all the other stuff. So, if you have any recommendations, leave it below what we should be checking. But I have went through about 100 different scenarios of what could go wrong and what could we do to alleviate that or actually um actually take that out. I'm even thinking of putting like a black box, same as the airplanes have, something that would record the last 30 sessions of what's going on on the bike.

[00:02:53]So, I will be able to tell what happened in case of something happens or what happened in case of an error. I will be able to download the data and can tell like, you know, uh I pressed the accelerator or I squeezed the accelerator too hard. How you I can even tell the brake pressures, front and back. So, stay tuned, subscribe, leave a comment down below with any suggestions, and yeah, let's see what we can do.