Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Transmission control
Patent
1996-12-27
1999-11-23
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Transmission control
701 55, 701 54, 701 69, G06G 770, B60K 4404
Patent
active
059916788
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle in the absence of a driving mode signal indicating a driving mode of the vehicle, includes monitoring means for monitoring output from a driving mode sensor; determining means for determining whether a driving mode signal has been received from the driving mode sensor based on the monitoring; sensing means for sensing a direction in which the vehicle is traveling; transmission control means placing the automatic transmission in first gear when the determining means determines that a driving mode signal has not been received, and for controlling the automatic transmission such that the vehicle continues to travel in the detected direction.
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Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Hernandez Olga
Hyundai Motor Company Ltd.
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