Methods and system for providing vehicle performance feedback
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1. A method for providing feedback from a vehicle powertrain to a foot of a driver of the vehicle powertrain, comprising:
- increasing accelerator pedal application resistance to provide the feedback to the driver in response to a decreasing difference between available powertrain torque and desired powertrain torque.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for supplying feedback to a driver of a vehicle so that transmission shifting busyness may be reduced are presented. In one example, the systems and methods include increasing resistance of an accelerator pedal in response to a difference between an available powertrain torque and a desired powertrain torque.
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1. A method for providing feedback from a vehicle powertrain to a foot of a driver of the vehicle powertrain, comprising:
increasing accelerator pedal application resistance to provide the feedback to the driver in response to a decreasing difference between available powertrain torque and desired powertrain torque. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method for providing feedback from a vehicle powertrain to an appendage of a driver of the vehicle powertrain, comprising:
increasing accelerator pedal application resistance to provide the feedback to the driver in response to an increasing difference between actual powertrain torque and desired powertrain torque. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A system, comprising:
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an accelerator pedal; a vehicle powertrain including an engine; a haptic actuator to increase and decrease resistance to applying the accelerator pedal; and a controller including executable instructions stored in non-transitory memory for increasing accelerator pedal application resistance in response to a difference between available powertrain torque and predicted actual powertrain torque. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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