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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2018
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Jae Chang Kook, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Kwang Hee Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Byeong Wook Jeon, Seoul, KR;
Sang Jun Park, Seoul, KR;
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Motors Company, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A vehicle may include an engine; a transmission; an accelerator pedal position sensor; a steering wheel; a steering angle sensor; and a processor configured to control the engine according to a position of an accelerator pedal detected by the accelerator pedal position sensor and to shift the transmission to a neutral state when a position of the accelerator pedal coincides with a reference position while the transmission is in a driving state, wherein the processor shifts the transmission to a driving state when a steering angle of the steering wheel detected by the steering angle sensor is equal to or greater than a reference angle while the transmission is in a neutral state.