Steering wheel mounting for transmission shift controls

A steering wheel that has an axis of turning axis for steering a motor vehicle that has an engine, a drivetrain, a transmission that provides different gear ratios for coupling the engine to the drivetrain, and a transmission controller that in an automatic mode automatically shifts the transmission...

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Hauptverfasser: Ringger, Kurt A, Hormann, Matthew W, Thurber, Mark A, Wesler, Mary Mc, Rotz, John F
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A steering wheel that has an axis of turning axis for steering a motor vehicle that has an engine, a drivetrain, a transmission that provides different gear ratios for coupling the engine to the drivetrain, and a transmission controller that in an automatic mode automatically shifts the transmission from one gear ratio to another in response to changing vehicle torque requirements and in a manual mode shifts the transmission from one gear ratio to another in response to manual actuation of a shift command device. A module contains both the shift command device and a mode selection device for selecting between the automatic and manual modes.