Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Dragosch Konstantin

Ronny Hause

Franziskus Bauer

Christian Marquardt

A rearwardly directed movement of a first vehicle that has a driving assistance system that can be controlled, the driving assistance system having at least one sensor and a control device, in which threshold values for triggering a warning intervention and/or braking intervention in respect of the interval in relation to at least one further road user are set, and additionally being connected to or having a camera, by which activated travel-direction indicators of a further road user are recognized, which travel-direction indicators are included in the calculation of a probable trajectory of the further road user, and a probability of a collision is calculated, according to which the threshold values are lowered or raised.

Cross traffic alert with flashing indicator recognition

A vehicle includes a display device, a radar sensor having a detection region perpendicular to a vehicle longitudinal axis, a radar analyzer connected to the radar sensor, and a camera having a switchable field of view for covering an angular range behind the vehicle direction between a narrower angular range and a wider angular range. The display device is configured to display an image from the camera, at the narrower range, responsive to a sensor sensing vehicle movement in a direction included in a field of view of the camera, and the display device is configured to display an image from the camera at the wider range, responsive to the radar sensor detecting an object moving towards the vehicle. The vehicle may also be configured to automatically stop responsive to certain characteristics of objects detected by the radar sensor.

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Nordrhein Westfalen, Germany

Dragosch Konstantin