Method and system for golf cart control

Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment

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C701S208000

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10754916

ABSTRACT:
Golf cart movements at a golf course are controlled by a limited access controller that compares a golf cart's GPS-determined position against a limited access map to restrict performance of inputs by the golf cart's driver to the golf cart's motor under predetermined conditions, such as if a golf cart enters or has a predetermined likelihood of entering a limited access area. The limited access controller inhibits motor responses, such as by preventing motor operation, limiting available motor speeds, or allowing motor operation only in a vector that removes the golf cart from the limited access area, such as operation in reverse. Golf carts of a golf course communicate with a base station that updates the limited access map by defining limited access area perimeters and allowable actions within a limited access area and that directly commands allowable motor operations. For example, golf carts are prohibited from entering green areas, are restricted to golf cart paths during cart-path-only periods, and are restricted to reduced speeds in driving hazard areas.

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U.S. Appl. No. 60/365,339 entitled “Remote Diagnostic System for Electric Vehicles” naming Dr. George T. Hummert, Russell W. King, David Nadler, Paul W. McLeod and Norman R. Padgett as inventors, and filed on Mar. 18, 2002.

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