Continental Automotive Systems Corporation

Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC

Diego German Canedo Texon

Berenice Sanvicente Herrera

Ningsheng Qiao

Jeremy McClain

Joseph Zagroba

Ali Houry

Francisco Alejandro Fuentes Perez

Julien Biton

Marco Antonio Ramírez Frías

Ryan Stabel

Arturo Holt

Alejandro Salcido Zarco

A method of maneuvering a vehicle-trailer assembly in reverse travel with a backing system includes: initiating a backing mode for the backing system; determining a current relative position representing a relative angle between the vehicle and the trailer; retrieving an operator proficiency setting selected by an operator; determining a maximum allowable relevant position for the current trailer based on the selected operator proficiency setting and the current trailer calibration data; receiving a position adjustment request via an input device; determining a new relative position request based upon the position adjustment request and the selected operator proficiency setting; comparing the new relative position request to the maximum allowed relative position setting to determine if the new relative position is below the maximum allowed relative position setting; setting a new relative position to the new relative position request when the new relative position request is within the maximum allowed relative position setting.

Vehicle-trailer backing system with jacknife protection

Driver misuse of an automatic braking system is determined by comparing the amount of time that a vehicle moves rearwardly until it is stopped, to the amount of time after the last actuation of a brake pedal and when the vehicle is stopped. If the ratio of no brake applied time to the total reverse time is greater than a predetermined value, the automatic braking system is considered to have been misused. Each misuse occurrence increments a counter that is stored in a non-transitory memory device.

Method of determining and preventing a driver misuse in a rear automatic braking system

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Zapopan, Mexico

Diego German Canedo Texon