The invention provides a distributed automobile line control steering system, which is disposed between a steering wheel and a direction steering machine connected on a wheel, the distributed automobile line control steering system comprises a FlexRay bus, several FlexRay nodes, a rotation angle torque sensor, a road sensing motor, a displacement sensor, and a steering motor, the rotation angle torque sensor and the road sensing motor are both connected with the steering wheel, the displacement sensor and the steering motor are both connected with the steering machine, the rotation angle torque sensor, the road sensing motor, the displacement sensor, and the steering motor are respectively connected with a different FlexRay node in the several FlexRay nodes, all the FlexRay nodes in the several FlexRay nodes are connected with the FlexRay bus. The distributed automobile line control steering system and the control method are advantageous in that, a distributed redundant structure is adopted, and a FlexRay communication protocol is used, facilitating reduction of automobile wire harness, the distributed automobile line control steering system and the control method are also advantaged by good capacity expandable performance, open performance, real time performance, and high reliability, convenient debugging, and facilitation of safety guarantee.