Patent ID: 7246675

Claim:
A motor vehicle comprising: a drive train, an automatic gearbox coupled with the drive train that can be operated in a manual mode and an automatic mode in which the transmission ratio is changed automatically, a automatic speed adjustment unit coupled with said gearbox, a control device coupled with said automatic gearbox and said automatic speed adjustment unit, wherein the control device comprises means to detect the activation of the automatic speed adjustment unit, and wherein the control device further comprises a switching means to switch from the manual mode to the automatic mode of the automatic gearbox, wherein the switching means are controlled if the automatic speed adjustment is active and the automatic gearbox is in manual mode, wherein the control device controls the transmission ratio of the gearbox and determines during activation of the automatic speed adjustment unit whether to change the transmission ratio to obtain a setpoint speed and that a change into the automatic mode is only triggered if the control device affirmatively determines to change the transmission ratio of the gearbox to obtain the setpoint speed.