Patent ID: 8577570

Claim:
A method of operating a manual transmission in a motor vehicle, comprising the steps of: sending information related to a clutch position from a clutch sensor to a control unit, the clutch position being a position of a clutch of the manual transmission of the motor vehicle located between a fully engaged position and a fully disengaged position, wherein the clutch is displaced linearly between the fully engaged position and the fully disengaged position; the control unit determining a clutch velocity according to the information related to the clutch position, the clutch velocity being determined based on a change in the clutch position measured over a time period; the control unit comparing the clutch velocity with a predetermined maximum clutch velocity; wherein the control unit allows a calibration mode of calibrating the touch point when the control unit determines that the clutch velocity is below the predetermined maximum clutch velocity, the calibration mode being used to determine a touch point value between the fully engaged position and the fully disengaged position for the clutch of the manual transmission; wherein the control unit prevents the calibration mode when the control unit determines that the clutch velocity is greater than the predetermined maximum clutch velocity; and operating the manual transmission of the motor vehicle using the touch point value determined during the calibration mode.