Vehicle and method of tuning performance of same
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDimitar Petrov Filev, Jianbo Lu, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Fling Tseng
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Abstract
A method for tuning a vehicle's performance may include measuring a plurality of parameters representing the vehicle's current handling condition and the vehicle's limit handling condition, determining a margin between the vehicle's current handling condition and limit handling condition, characterizing the driver's dynamic control of the vehicle based on the margin, and altering at least one tunable vehicle performance parameter based on the characterization.
Claims10
1-11. (canceled)
A vehicle comprising:
- a sensor arrangement disposed within the vehicle and configured to measure a plurality of parameters representing the vehicle's current handling condition and the vehicle's limit handling condition;
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- at least one controller disposed within the vehicle and configured to determine a margin between the vehicle's current handling condition and limit handling condition and to characterize a driver's dynamic control of the vehicle based on the margin.
A vehicle comprising at least one controller configured to characterize a driver's dynamic control of the vehicle based on a margin between parameters representing the vehicle's current handling condition and limit handling condition and to alter at least one of the vehicle's accelerator pedal sensitivity and steering wheel sensitivity based on the characterization.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.