actuators 13 and sub system controllers 14 all provide various input signals 16 to the vehicle dynamics controller 10 for use in vehicle dynamics control routines vehicle inputs may include for example yaw rate lateral acceleration and vehicle speed actuator inputs may include for example damper position and road wheel angle sub system controller inputs may include for example individual brake corner actuation override brake system blending terms shock damping value override afs steering actuator override or extra steering angle vehicle 11 sub system actuators 13 and sub system controllers 14 input signals are preferably provided over a controller area network can bus but may take the form of discrete sensor signal inputs serial communication lines etc vehicle dynamics controller 10 in turn provides high priority control commands 18 for overriding modifying or adapting the normal control of the sub system controllers 14 in the interest of implementing vehicle dynamics enhancing control of the various sub system actuators 13 vehicle dynamics controller 10 includes a variety of structured processing layers adapted to effect desirable objectives of promoting re use of the software components application development time and cost reductions maintainability and multiple vehicle platform adaptation among others significantly the present invention promotes the reusability of not only the large scale control application software components but also of the vehicular interfaces signal conditioning internal bus structures and output processing beginning at the left of the vehicle dynamics controller 10 in fig1 signal processing layer 15 is shown interfacing with the various input signals 16 from vehicle 11 sub system actuators 13 and sub system controllers 14 signal processing layer 15 is communication coupled to process.