Patent ID: 9604650
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: B60H,B60R,B60W,F02N,Y02T

Claim:
1. A motor vehicle having a start operating element to start an internal combustion engine, an authorization device, at least one comfort device and an air conditioning unit for at least one of heating the internal combustion engine and at least one of heating and cooling a passenger compartment, the motor vehicle comprising: a remote start unit receiving a remote start signal wirelessly from outside the motor vehicle and, upon receiving the remote start signal, starting the internal combustion engine of the motor vehicle, activating exclusively a predetermined first device group, including at least the air conditioning unit, in preparation of the motor vehicle being driven, and switching the motor vehicle to a remote start state; and a control unit determining, in the remote start state and before driving off, whether a person is carrying out a predetermined unsuitable operating action, one of in and on the motor vehicle, unsuitable for driving off, including detecting at least actuation of the start operating element for starting the internal combustion engine with a simultaneously unactuated brake as one predetermined operating action unsuitable for driving off, and, when the control unit detects the predetermined unsuitable operating action, switching the motor vehicle to an ignition ON state in which the internal combustion engine is switched off and a predetermined second device group including the at least one comfort device of the motor vehicle, not included in the first device group, is switched one of on and ready for operation, the control unit changing from the remote start state to the ignition ON state only when the authorization device signals successful completion of a predetermined authorization procedure verifying an operating authorization of the person.