Patent ID: 7585250

Claim:
A method for operating a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an automatic start/stop device for the internal combustion engine, a controllable brake device by means of which a braking torque can be applied to the motor vehicle, and a brake pedal which can be activated by a vehicle driver; wherein the brake device is actuated by a control device in an automatic stop phase of the internal combustion engine as a function of a degree of activation of the brake pedal, and the control device can increase the braking torque independently of the degree of activation of the brake pedal; said method comprising: determining a threshold value as a function of at least one of state variables and operating variables of the motor vehicle, before the brake device is actuated; at the start of and during said automatic stop phase of the internal combustion engine, checking whether a currently acting braking torque is smaller than the threshold value; and increasing the brake torque to a value which is greater than or equal to the threshold value when said currently acting braking torque is smaller than the threshold value.