Methods for Improved Equipment and Vehicle Performance and Energy Efficiency Through Interfaces and Enhanced Extrapolations Using Factors such as the Value of Potential and Kinetic Energy Changes
First Claim
1. A method/algorithm allowing a user permission to override configurations or automated control decisions, comprising:
- Providing a user access to control variables (e.g. switch states), a presentation of a contract and terms which warn them of general and feature-specific associated risks/consequences, subsystems for logging the response, authenticating, and propagating the information to locations where the vendor and other customers can verify the decisions made.
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for improving vehicle performance and efficiency. The performance is improved by allowing the user to customize parameters and other features through the use of an interface accessible to the vehicle operator or owner, which enables and encourages development and rewards many stakeholders including vehicle producers and third party vendors (e.g. aftermarket), customers, maintenance service providers, and insurance companies. One form of performance improvement, a novel method of accomplishing an enhanced form of energy efficiency calculation for near real-time display to the operator, is provided in detail.
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22 Claims
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1. A method/algorithm allowing a user permission to override configurations or automated control decisions, comprising:
Providing a user access to control variables (e.g. switch states), a presentation of a contract and terms which warn them of general and feature-specific associated risks/consequences, subsystems for logging the response, authenticating, and propagating the information to locations where the vendor and other customers can verify the decisions made. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for enhanced vehicle efficiency measurement and display, comprising the following steps:
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measuring energy consumed over an interval; measuring distance traveled over the interval, calculating the extrapolated values (eg range in miles) due to changes in potential and in kinetic energy over the interval, summing the measured and extrapolated distances, dividing energy consumed by summed distance components to yield effective energy efficiency displaying the effective energy efficiency compared to that which could be achieved under different conditions. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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