Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Matthias Ruehr

David T Proefke

Jeffrey L Konchan

Frank Joseph Arabia, Jr

Richard J Lange

Andreas Heberer

Jeffrey James Hoorn

Peter Eduard Schuessler

A motor vehicle has a plurality of doors, each secured by a lock, peripheral control units, each connected to one of said locks, for sending a command signal to an actuator of the lock, a central control unit for sending command signals to the actuators of the locks, and an accident detector. If the accident detector has detected an accident, at least one of the actuators is switchable from a central operating mode in which it executes command signals of the central control unit and its associated peripheral control unit into a peripheral operating mode in which it executes only command signals from its peripheral control unit.

Motor vehicle having a centralized door locking system

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Nackenheim, Germany

Matthias Ruehr