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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Todd Ansbacher, Westland, MI (US);
Adam Stratton, Livonia, MI (US);
Patrick Kevin Holub, Novi, MI (US);
John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Novi, MI (US);
Ronald Fitzgerald, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method includes determining a vehicle configuration indicative of a towing mode setting for the vehicle, which can include a neutral transmission gear setting, a battery conservation mode, or another towing mode setting. The method can include determining at least one vehicle operation characteristic that changes with time while the vehicle is in the towing mode setting, and performing, via a vehicle control module and based at least in part on the towing mode setting and the vehicle operation characteristic, one or more vehicle actions that include generating an alert signal indicative that vehicle damage may be imminent.