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

摘要

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.

主权项

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.