Patent ID: 8543308

Claim:
A vehicle display system for use with a vehicle, the vehicle display system comprising: a processor; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: determine an actual speed of the vehicle; control a position of an actual speed indicator along a length of a scalar element of a display as a function of the actual speed, wherein the length of the scalar element represents potential speeds of the vehicle; determine an optimal acceleration for changing vehicle speed; and control a position of an optimal speed indicator along the length of the scalar element as a function of the determined optimal acceleration; wherein the instructions, in being configured to cause the processor to control the position of the optimal speed indicator and to control the position of the actual speed indicator, are configured to: increase a distance between the optimal speed indicator and the actual speed indicator when the actual acceleration exceeds the optimal acceleration; and decrease a distance or maintain a minimum distance between the optimal speed indicator and the actual speed indicator when the actual acceleration does not exceed the optimal acceleration.