Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Benjamin Baecker

Benjamin Carl Mukkala, Ii

Andreas Ediger

Aaron Lewis Mills

Stephanie Rosenberg

Roy S Schafer

Manuel Strauch

Stephen Cole

A method for controlling a vehicle includes automatically adapting vehicle acceleration responsive to a cruise control setpoint acceleration associated with a detected speed limit, and a drive setpoint acceleration based on the cruise control setpoint acceleration, wherein a cruise controller determines a distance control setpoint acceleration based on a detected vehicle distance from a vehicle traveling ahead, and wherein the drive setpoint acceleration is limited by the distance control setpoint acceleration.

Method for automatically adapting acceleration in a motor vehicle

A system for overriding a vehicle speed limit setting via accelerator pedal override is disclosed, comprising a vehicle including steering, an accelerator pedal, brakes, a processor, and memory, and a vehicle speed limit override module coupled to the processor and configured to override the speed limit setting by calculating an override threshold based on the set speed limit and accounting for variable vehicle weight, road grade or other unknown loads.

Analytic design of pedal override for adjustable speed limiting

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Cologne, Germany

Benjamin Baecker