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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2014
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Hsin-hsiang Yang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Fling Tseng, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Steven Joseph Szwabowski, Northville, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system includes a processor configured to receive a vehicle location and to access driver-specific driving-mode-change data for the vehicle location. The processor is also configured to determine, based on the accessed data, if a vehicle driving-mode-change has previously occurred at the vehicle location and context a sufficient number of times to cross a predefined threshold and, if so, to automatically change a vehicle driving-mode to the driving-mode associated with the previous driving-mode-change.