Weber Developing Control By Wire to Automate Gas Grilling

As car people out there know, drive by wire was a technology that was invented to remove the mechanical linkage of the gas pedal to the throttle body (also seen in steering systems). Instead, the technology opts for an electronic controller to actuate the throttle.

According to a series of patents released today, Weber is working on a similar technology that they refer to as “control by wire”. This eliminates the mechanical linkage of the knob on a gas grill to the burner valve. The idea behind the technology is to reduce the number of steps it takes to start and shutdown a gas grill.