Patent ID: 8569908
Filing Date: 2013-10-29
Classification: B60L,B60R,B60W,Y02T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a motor vehicle, comprising: detecting, at an immobilizer control unit, whether a condition has been satisfied; communicating that the condition has been satisfied by sending a signal from the immobilizer control unit; individually activating each of a plurality of drives of the motor vehicle by outputting control signals from an associated drive control unit, the plurality of drives comprising an internal combustion engine, each of the plurality of drives being individually activated only when the immobilizer control unit has detected satisfaction of the condition within a specific time period which has not yet expired; in response to a predetermined situation, determining at a master control unit whether to activate each individual drive which was previously inactive, the master control unit acting as a hybrid control unit; when all drives were previously inactive, ensuring that each of the drive control units has received the signal from the immobilizer control unit before a first of the drive control units begins to output control signals for activation; and after a predetermined time period of inactivity less than the specific time period, briefly activating the internal combustion engine by outputting control signals from the associated drive control unit.