Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Alois Abel

Josef Neuner

Rudolf Ehrmaier

Sigmund Fuerst

Anette Sedlmaier

A motor vehicle having a driving engine and an automatically shifted transmission, particularly an automatic transmission, includes at least one selector lever used as the operating element. With this selector lever, a driver triggers an electric transmission control device which, as a function of an operating position for the automatically shifted transmission selected on the selector lever and of other operating parameters of the motor vehicle, controls the automatically shifted transmission. By deflecting the selector lever, certain operation positions of the automatically shifted transmission are selected. This selector lever can be moved along at least one shifting channel, for preselecting individual driving positions in the automatic operation, into at least two deflecting directions. The lever automatically returns from the two deflecting positions always into the same starting position. Always the same driving position of the automatically shifted transmission is assigned to each deflecting direction of the selector lever in the shifting channel for the preselecting of individual driving positions in the automatic operation, and, in at least one deflecting direction of the selector lever, two different driving positions can be selected. The selector lever, for selecting a first driving position, is movable a first distance to a first stop in the deflecting direction, and, for selecting a second driving position, the selector lever is movable a second, longer distance to a second stop in the same deflecting direction, in which case the first stop is overpressed.

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Alois Abel