Volkswagen Ag

Carsten Semmler

Thomas Eigel

Christoph Waeller

Andro Kleen

Christoph Wäller

Johannes Rhede

Marius Spika

Ina Petermann-Stock

Jan Sonnenberg

Theodor Heinze

Tobias Giebel

Hannes Wendland

Jiri Jerhot

Florian Kranke

Julia Drüke

Roland Penner

Jan Bickerdt

Anna Zoe Krahnstöver

Ina Petermann

Assisting a driver in a vehicle, wherein the vehicle has an environment sensor system for acquiring environment data of an environment surrounding the vehicle and a controller for determining a current traffic status from the acquired environment data. A current overtaking maneuver status is determined, wherein each overtaking maneuver status includes one of a plurality of successive situations during an overtaking maneuver, making available at least one assistance information item on the basis of the determined current traffic status, wherein the assistance information is made available in accordance with the determined current overtaking maneuver status, and outputting the assistance information which is made available.

Method and device for assisting a driver in a vehicle

A method for outputting alert messages of a driver assistance system in a vehicle in which data for moving the vehicle and data regarding accident risks in the surroundings of the vehicle are detected, the detected data is evaluated and attributed to a specific accident risk category and an alert message is output subject to the attributed accident risk category. The method according to the invention is characterized in that from the captured movement of the vehicle a planned movement of the vehicle is derived and it is tested whether without modification of the planned movement of the vehicle a collision of the vehicle with another object will occur, and the manner of outputting the alert message is carried out in dependence on the result of said collision testing. The invention further relates to an associated driver assistance system and to a vehicle having such a driver assistance system.

Method for outputting alert messages of a driver assistance system and associated driver assistance system

A driver assistance system having a predefined number of driver assistance functions has a device for defining, storing and implementing a predefined number of driver assistance packages, wherein each driver assistance package comprises one or more driver assistance functions and each driver assistance package has a predetermined functional scope.

Driver assistance system and operator control concept therefor

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Cremlingen, Germany

Carsten Semmler