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AssigneeInternational Engine Intellectual Property Company, LLC
InventorsJames Thomas Beaucaire, Paul Anton Wieshuber
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Disclosed herein are systems and methods, implementable in a vehicle equipped with adaptive cruise control, for maintaining in a subject vehicle substantially constant following distance relative to a preceding target vehicle where there has been a change in slope of a surface on which the subject vehicle is travelling and/or where pitch of the subject vehicle has changed. Systems and methods disclosed herein may maintain such substantially constant following distance by managing engine torque. Such engine torque management effective for maintaining substantially constant following distance relative to a preceding target vehicle, notwithstanding change in driving surface slope and/or change in pitch of the subject vehicle, may be realized, according to the subject vehicle's torque map, based on data received into the subject vehicle's electronic control unit through sensors for detecting surface slope and sensors for detecting vehicle pitch, which may be located on the subject vehicle.
A system, implementable in a subject vehicle equipped with adaptive cruise control technology, for maintaining a substantially constant following distance from a target vehicle comprising:
A system, implementable in a subject vehicle equipped with adaptive cruise control technology, for maintaining a substantially constant following distance from a target vehicle comprising:
A method, implementable in a subject vehicle equipped with adaptive cruise control technology, for maintaining a substantially constant following distance relative to a preceding target vehicle comprising:
A method, implementable in a subject vehicle equipped with adaptive cruise control technology, for maintaining a substantially constant following distance relative to a preceding target vehicle comprising:
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