Patent ID: 7698042

Claim:
A motor vehicle, comprising: a motor that outputs power to drive said motor vehicle; a locking mechanism comprising a first gear that is directly or indirectly linked to a specific axle of said motor vehicle and rotates with rotation of the specific axle, and a second gear that engages with the first gear and locks the specific axle in a non-rotatable state, the locking mechanism configured to cause second gear to engage with the first gear in response to a driver's gearshift operation of a gearshift lever to a parking position; and a parking control module configured to execute a parking control after the driver's gearshift operation of the gearshift lever to the parking position, the parking control configured to control the motor to sequentially output a torque for moving said motor vehicle in one of forward and backward directions by or over a first distance and a torque for moving said motor vehicle in the other of the forward and backward directions by or over a second distance.