Patent ID: 9052713
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: B60W,G05D,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a vehicle, the method comprising: determining, by a processor, a speed versus time curve from an actual speed to a setpoint speed for a speed behavior of the vehicle on traveling on a coasting route, wherein the coasting route is a route throughout which fuel consumption is not used for the traveling of the vehicle; determining, by the processor, that an additional vehicle is approaching the vehicle from behind on the coasting route; raising, by the processor, a speed of the vehicle on the coasting route to produce a predetermined threshold distance from the additional vehicle, wherein the raised speed of the vehicle is greater than a speed that corresponds to the speed behavior of the determined speed versus time curve; determining a minimum braking distance to a position at which the setpoint speed is supposed to be reached; and ending the raising of the speed of the vehicle if the minimum braking distance to the position at which the setpoint speed is to be reached, has been reached.