US Patent Issued to Hyundai Motor, Kia on Aug. 12 for "Control method during switching to manual driving mode of autonomous vehicle equipped with haptic pedal" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,425, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Control method during switching to manual driving mode of autonomous vehicle equipped with haptic pedal" was invented by Eun Sik Kim (Gwangmyeong-Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a control method during switching to a manual driving mode of an autonomous vehicle provided with a haptic pedal, when the autonomous vehicle provided with the haptic pedal is switched from an autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode, a mode change signal is generated to switch to the manual driving mode, and switchin...