Patent ID: 7124012

Claim:
A method for determining a torque setpoint of a driver for an internal combustion engine, a drive pedal and a drive pedal sensor sensing a pedal position of the drive pedal and associated with the internal combustion engine, which comprises the step of: activating different modes of calculation in dependence on at least one switching parameter, thus assigning the pedal position a first driver torque setpoint; after a switchover from an old mode of calculation to a new mode of calculation, calculating the first driver torque setpoint by starting from a second driver torque setpoint under an old interpretation of the pedal position, determined in accordance with the old mode of calculation; and making a progressive adjustment towards a third driver torque setpoint under a new interpretation of the pedal position, determined in accordance with the new mode of calculation, such that the progressive adjustment depends on a time graph of the pedal position and on time, disregarding the time graph of the pedal position.