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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2016
Bentley Motors Limited, Cheshire, GB;
Deaglan O Meachair, Nantwich, GB;
Matthew Crumpton, Nantwich, GB;
Bentley Motors Limited, Crewe, Cheshire, GB;
Abstract
A method of controlling the speed of a vehicle, especially an automobile, is responsive to information concerning a route and traffic. The method identifies at least a portion of an anticipated route, based on planned route data from a navigation system and/or based on data from a repeat journey logger. The method determines an optimal braking or accelerating point based on the anticipated route and outputs a sign to a driver to adjust the vehicle speed in accordance with the optimal braking or accelerating point. The method also records speed profiles of the vehicle along routes followed in a repeat journey logger and uses these speed profiles to determine an optimal braking or accelerating point. Instead of, or as well as outputting a sign to the driver, the method can adjust the speed profile of the vehicle in accordance with the optimal braking or acceleration point.