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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2000
Horst Marchart, Stuttgart, DE;
Dr. Ing. h.c.f. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A system and a process are provided so that a transmission, which is automatically shifting per se, can be operated a driving position switch for a first automatic operating mode and a switching rocker for a second operating mode influenced by the driver. In order to provide such a system and a process which has a selecting device and can be influenced for a short time by the driver, the control unit changes, from the automatic operating mode normally selected in a position D of the first selecting device (of the driving position switch), without the selection by the first selecting device, temporarily into the operating mode influenced by the driver when a second selecting device (a rocker or another signal device) arranged on the steering wheel is actuated.