EU EP20110180894 20110912 · Filed Sep 12, 2011
A system for driver-vehicle interaction in a vehicle
The present invention relates to a system for driver-vehicle interaction in a vehicle. The system comprises a soft key arrangement which is adapted to be located in the proximity of a steering wheel of said vehicle and having at least two soft keys. Each soft key corresponds to a display key on a display key arrangement having a corresponding layout as said soft key arrangement, said display key arrangement being adapted to be located in the proximity of a dashboard of said vehicle. Said vehicle is associated with at least two function modes in a first set of function modes, each function mode being associated with a set of selectable options in order to affect a behaviour of the vehicle in each function mode, each function mode further being associated with a respective layout for said display key arrangement in order to display said set of selectable options. For each function mode layout, each display key is adapted to illustrate and correspond to a currently available selectable option of said set of selectable options for each soft key, such that actuation of said soft key arrangement is adapted to both effectuate change between said function modes and to select at least one of said currently available selectable options associated with the chosen function mode. The present invention further relates to a vehicle having such a system for driver-vehicle interaction.