Patent ID: 8371900

Claim:
A process for operating a digital control system for track-guided toy vehicles, having at least two tracks for toy vehicles on a car race track with at least two guide slots as the tracks, including at least one switch where in the switched condition, optionally connects two tracks to each other in such a manner that a toy vehicle, when passing over the switch, changes from one track to another track, and which, in the unswitched condition, continues to guide the toy vehicle on the same track without changing tracks, where, in each case a switching command issued for a certain toy vehicle to switch a switch which the certain toy vehicle will be the next to cross is transmitted in the switched condition in the digital control system together with a digital address of the certain toy vehicle for which the switching command is valid; including at least one toy vehicle, for which a switching command is transmitted, transmits an identification which represents the digital address or another encoding of said at least one toy vehicle in the digital control system; that each switch receives an identification transmitted by the toy vehicle which is approaching this switch and compares it to the digital address of one or more transmitted switching commands and that the switch changes into the switched condition if the digital address in the identification received from the toy vehicle is identical to a digital address for which a switching command is transmitted in the digital control system.