Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Joshua Sharpe

Keith Weston

Brendan F Diamond

Andrew Thomas Cunningham

Andrew Arthur Brown

Andrew Brown

Brian Gabel

David Michael Russell

James Trent

Charles Richard Drake

A vehicle includes at least one drive wheel, a powerplant, a clutch, and a controller. The powerplant is configured to generate and deliver power to the at least one drive wheel. The clutch is disposed between the at least one drive wheel and the powerplant. The controller is programmed to, in response to detecting the at least one drive wheel disengaging the ground during a vehicle jump, open the clutch to disconnect the at least one drive wheel from the powerplant.

Control system for vehicle powertrain during off-road jumping

A system receives confirmation that a vehicle has accepted automatic control imposition for a drive within a geo-fenced boundary. The system tracks travel of a plurality of vehicles, including the vehicle, within the geo-fenced boundary. The system may determine that the vehicle has a threshold likelihood of encountering at least one of another vehicle or a boundary of the geo-fence at a threshold speed or above and responsive to the determination, impose automatic control on the vehicle, including at least one of controlled braking or speed limiting.

Vehicle-to-x communication and handling for vehicle coordination and management

A load-monitoring system includes a vehicle processor and a camera mounted in a trailer. The vehicle, via the processor, displays a first image of a trailer load, received from a trailer-mounted camera and receives selection of a monitoring point on the image, via a touch-sensitive user interface displaying the image or other selection mechanism. The vehicle also receives selection of a fixed point on the image, via the user interface. If the monitoring point moves more than a threshold amount, relative to the fixed point, for example, in subsequent images captured by the camera, the vehicle alerts the driver.

Method and apparatus for adaptive trailer content monitoring

Vehicle-to-X communication and handling for vehicle coordination and management

A system includes a processor configured to detect a vehicle key and display a key identification on a vehicle display. The processor is also configured to receive a request to export vehicle system and state settings to a key memory. The processor is further configured to access a plurality of predefined settings, designated as key-storable settings, from a vehicle CAN bus, responsive to the request, and transmit the predefined settings to the key, including instructions to store the settings to the key memory.

Method and apparatus key-centric portable vehicle state settings

A vehicle includes one or more controllers, programmed to responsive to detecting a vehicle location within a geofence of a first entity, qualify the first entity as one of business candidates to display to a screen; responsive to receiving a promotion from one or more of the business candidates, output the promotion; and responsive to receiving a user input, place a reservation to one of the business candidates.

Local business access using geofence

Methods and systems are provided for launching a vehicle from rest in order to maximize performance for the vehicle launch event. In one example, a method comprises, in preparation of a launch of the vehicle driven by an engine from a resting state, rotating a set of vehicle tires via a controller by adjusting a torque of the engine while vehicle brakes are applied for a duration that is a function of real-time pressure sensor readings of the set of tires. In this way, tire temperature may be determined based on the real-time pressure sensor readings in order to control tire temperature to an optimal tire temperature for the launch event, where the optimal tire temperature is based on a coefficient of friction of the road surface the vehicle is launching from, and where the optimal tire temperature provides for optimal grip for the vehicle launch.

Systems and methods for vehicle launch control

A system includes a processor configured to receive, via a vehicle-related interface, an object to be geo-fenced. The processor is also configured to receive adaptive parameters defining how a geo-fence should adapt to data types included with the parameters. The processor is further configured to find an instance of the object and create a geo-fence around the found object. The processor is also configured to track data corresponding to the adaptive parameters while a vehicle travels and adapt the created geo-fence based on the tracked data as guided by the parameters.

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