Control assistant system to align driving and riding experience between gasoline and electric vehicles

A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations of operating an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV), the operations comprising:

• receiving a persistent input throttle command signal that starts at a first time instant at a vehicle control system of the ADV that is a first type vehicle;
• determining a timing factor based on a present time relative to the first time instant using a first acceleration performance curve representing a power transient response of the first type vehicle and a second acceleration performance curve representing a power transient response of a second type vehicle, in response to a throttle command;
• generating a transformed throttle command signal based on the persistent input throttle signal in view of the timing factor;
• and
• controlling an engine operation of the ADV based on the transformed throttle command signal at the vehicle control system, such that the ADV accelerates in a manner similar to the second type vehicle.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations of operating an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV), the operations including
• receiving a persistent input throttle command signal that starts at a first time instant at a vehicle control system of the ADV that is a first type vehicle,
• determining a timing factor based on a present time relative to the first time instant using a first acceleration performance curve representing a power transient response of the first type vehicle and a second acceleration performance curve representing a power transient response of a second type vehicle, in response to a throttle command,
• generating a transformed throttle command signal based on the persistent input throttle signal in view of the timing factor, and
• controlling an engine operation of the ADV based on the transformed throttle command signal at the vehicle control system, such that the ADV accelerates in a manner similar to the second type vehicle.