METHOD FOR IMPROVING FUEL ECONOMY BY INFLUENCING DRIVER BEHAVIOR

A vehicle computer system (e.g., on-board vehicle computer system) obtains a fuel economy performance goal for a vehicle (e.g., an engine speed goal or a vehicle speed goal) that is based on a configuration of the vehicle; calculates a count of events in which a current value exceeds the goal; compa...

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Hauptverfasser:	Slaton, Zachary, Seger, Matthew
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE BLASTING CHECKING-DEVICES COMBUSTION ENGINES COMBUSTION ENGINES IN GENERAL CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS HEATING HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS INTERNAL-COMBUSTION PISTON ENGINES LIGHTING MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS TRANSPORTING VEHICLES IN GENERAL VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS WEAPONS
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Zusammenfassung:	A vehicle computer system (e.g., on-board vehicle computer system) obtains a fuel economy performance goal for a vehicle (e.g., an engine speed goal or a vehicle speed goal) that is based on a configuration of the vehicle; calculates a count of events in which a current value exceeds the goal; compares the count of events with a threshold count; and generates one or more notifications based at least in part on the comparison (e.g., for display on an operator interface). The vehicle computer system also calculates an engine speed and a vehicle speed score for a driver of the vehicle based at least in part on comparisons of current speeds with the speed goals. Scoring and other data may be displayed or stored for further processing.