A method for regulating the speed in a motor vehicle by a pedal system having a force resetting device which is integrated in a housing, comprising: - a pedal lever for converting the driver's request to speed, wherein the pedal lever can be pivoted about a center of rotation from a zero position PN of the pedal lever to an end position PE of the pedal lever, - a pedal return spring which can move the pedal lever to its zero position, - an electric motor which can be pivoted about a center of rotation from a zero position of the electric motor to an end position of the electric motor, and which in the energized state can apply a resetting force F to the pedal lever in the direction of the zero position thereof, wherein the respective rotational direction from the end position (PE, ME) to the zero position (PN, MN) is identical for the pedal lever and the electric motor, - a drive pulley which is connected to the electric motor by a shaft and which applies the resetting force F to the pedal lever by a drive roller which is arranged eccentrically on the drive pulley, wherein, when the resetting force is applied to the pedal lever, the drive roller merely bears on the pedal lever, - a motor return spring for resetting the electric motor in the direction of the zero position of the electric motor, - a control unit for controlling the electric motor, wherein the functional relationship between a force which acts on the pedal lever and the angle of the pedal lever between the zero position and the end position PE is described by a pedal characteristic curve (PK1, PK2, PK3,...), characterized in that when the electric motor is de-energized the pedal return spring, a hysteresis element on the pedal lever and the motor return spring generate a passive pedal characteristic curve, and the passive characteristic curve can be changed by energizing the electric motor, wherein the passive pedal characteristic curve between the zero position and the end position of the pedal lever can be reduced to a minimum pedal characteristic curve by decoupling the motor return spring in the direction of the end position of the electric motor by correspondingly energizing the electric motor, wherein the minimum pedal characteristic curve is then generated by the pedal return spring and the hysteresis element. - a pedal lever for converting the driver's request to speed, wherein the pedal lever can be pivoted about a center of rotation from a zero position PN of the pedal lever to an end position PE of the pedal lever, - a pedal return spring which can move the pedal lever to its zero position, - an electric motor which can be pivoted about a center of rotation from a zero position of the electric motor to an end position of the electric motor, and which in the energized state can apply a resetting force F to the pedal lever in the direction of the zero position thereof, wherein the respective rotational direction from the end position (PE, ME) to the zero position (PN, MN) is identical for the pedal lever and the electric motor, - a drive pulley which is connected to the electric motor by a shaft and which applies the resetting force F to the pedal lever by a drive roller which is arranged eccentrically on the drive pulley, wherein, when the resetting force is applied to the pedal lever, the drive roller merely bears on the pedal lever, - a motor return spring for resetting the electric motor in the direction of the zero position of the electric motor, - a control unit for controlling the electric motor, wherein