vehicle and the control systems or control devices that are linked or interconnected as first components as a result of an coordination of these control tasks or of the first components carrying them out the result in accordance with the present invention is a more powerful i e more optimized system oriented performance an example of such optimized performance is the control and regulation of the complete drive train taking into account all of the coordination components e g overall vehicle motion of the vehicle drive train instead of individual actions of engine and transmission using reciprocal data exchange as a result the possibility arises for the system layer to make changes and improvements in operating functions in particular in or through partial operating modules so called plug ins partial operating modules vary and or expand already existing operating functions without changing the actual core functionality of the operating function they therefore represent a simple means of modification in the meaning of the present invention which refers to vehicle relevant functions that are encapsulated portable and capable of being transmitted and reused in order to be able to uniformly apply them in a modular fashion e g for different control components the operating functions and the partial operating modules can be uniformly employed and can be superimposed on the system layer in fig2 electronic system 200 is depicted which can be realized for example by implementing a software architecture on the electronic hardware corresponding to the vehicle topology the basic connection to the hardware of the vehicle is supplied by layer 201 which symbolizes the standard operating system i e osek or ercos according to the present invention a separation is now carried out between basis functions i e basis functionality and operating functions i e the.