Automatic cruise control
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorEdward O. Clapper
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Abstract
An automatic cruise control uses stored information about speeds which the vehicle used at given positions in the past to control the speed of the vehicle at a current position. In this way, the vehicle may be caused to travel at speeds in accordance with past driving history of the user. The speeds may be adjusted or overridden by the user. In addition, where a prior driving history is not available, the system can consult a database of given speeds at given locations and those speeds may be used to control the vehicular speed.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- determining a position of a vehicle;
- and
- automatically providing information about a suggested vehicle speed that said vehicle traveled at said position in the past.
An automatic cruise control comprising:
- a position locating device;
- a controller that compares a current position of a vehicle with a previous condition;
- determining the vehicle speed based on the current position and the speed used at that position in the past;
- and
- a memory storing the speeds that the vehicle used at given locations in the past.
An article comprising a medium for storing instructions that cause a processor based system to:
- determine a position of a vehicle;
- and
- automatically provide information about a suggested vehicle speed previously traveled at said position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.