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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2015
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating a vehicle that can be operated in a manual driving mode and in an automatic driving mode and has at least one foot actuation device, which in the manual driving mode projects from a plane of a resting surface and can be actuated by a vehicle driver, wherein a switch from the manual driving mode to the automatic driving mode is detected and thereupon the at least one foot actuation device and/or the resting surface are moved relative to one another in such a way that the at least one foot actuation device and the resting surface form a substantially continuous plane or the resting surface forms a substantially continuous plane and the foot actuation device is covered by the plane of the resting surface.
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