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US 2016/0244029 A1Published application
Vehicle car wash mode
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorKeith Weston
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Abstract
A vehicle system includes a processing device programmed to receive a first user input signal and activate a car wash mode in response to receiving the first user input signal. Activating the car wash mode includes temporarily disabling at least one vehicle safety system. A method includes receiving the first user input signal, activating a vehicle car wash mode in response to receiving the first user input signal, receiving a second user input signal, and deactivating the car wash mode in response to receiving the second user input signal.
Claims20
A vehicle system comprising:
- a processing device programmed to receive a first user input signal and activate a car wash mode in response to receiving the first user input signal,
- wherein activating the car wash mode includes temporarily disabling at least one vehicle safety system.
A method comprising:
- receiving a first user input signal;
- activating a vehicle car wash mode in response to receiving the first user input signal, wherein activating the car wash mode includes temporarily disabling at least one vehicle safety system;
- receiving a second user input signal;
- and
- deactivating the car wash mode in response to receiving the second user input signal.
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A vehicle system comprising:
- a processing device programmed to receive a first user input signal and activate a car wash mode in response to receiving the first user input signal,
- wherein activating the car wash mode includes temporarily disabling at least one vehicle safety system, limiting a maximum vehicle speed to a predetermined value, activating at least one external vehicle light, unlocking at least one vehicle door and keeping the at least one vehicle door unlocked at least while the car wash mode remains activated, disabling an automatic wiper system, turning off a vehicle engine while in a neutral transmission state, and at least temporarily setting a parking brake,
- wherein the processing device is programmed to receive a second user input signal and deactivate the car wash mode and temporarily set the parking brake in response to receiving the second user input signal at least until an occupant is detected in a passenger compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.