Method for preventing wheel spin on stopped vehicles

A system for controlling driven wheels of a motor vehicle, comprising:

• a braking system coupled to the driven wheels and non-driven wheels of the vehicle, said braking system responsive to an operator controlled brake;
• an internal combustion engine coupled to the driven wheels through an automatic transmission;
• an air intake system including a throttle coupled to an intake of said engine, said throttle responsive to an operator controlled accelerator pedal;
• said automatic transmission having electrically actuated hydraulic clutches to engage one of a plurality of gears having different gear ratios, each of said gears when engaged coupling engine torque modified by said engaged gear to said driven wheels;
• and
• a controller controlling said engine and said automatic transmission, said controller including instructions stored in non-transitory memory for actuating a different one of said selected gears for each one of a range of predetermined speeds of said engine to provide a substantially constant torque applied to said driven wheels over said range of predetermined engine speeds when said throttle has been moved to an idle position and said braking system has slowed said vehicle below a predetermined speed or has stopped said vehicle,
• wherein said range of predetermined engine speeds corresponds to a range of engine idle speeds.