Daimler Chrysler Ag

Daimler Ag

Edgar Bihler

Avshalom Suissa

Uwe Franke

Volker Oltmann

Ingo Dudeck

Bernd Woltermann

Reinhold Schoeb

Zoltan Zomotor

Florent Paviot

Uwe Regensburger

Guenter Dobler

Frank-Werner Mohn

Carsten Knoeppel

Rainer Moebus

Axel Gern

Reinhard Janssen

Helmut Schittenhelm

Siegried Rothe

The opening of vehicle doors often leads to collisions with stationary obstacles that are not visible to the occupants or with moving obstacles that approach the vehicle without being noticed. Thus to avoid collisions when vehicle doors are opened, the aim of the invention is to take any modifications to the environmental situation of the vehicle as a result of a movement of the vehicle and the detected objects into consideration. This allows a collision of the vehicle doors with the objects to be reliably avoided. To achieve this, in a first step the probable trajectory of a vehicle is determined. In an additional step, the objects in the vicinity of the vehicle are detected and probable trajectories of said detected objects are determined. Respective probability ranges are then defined both for the vehicle and the pivoting zone of the vehicle doors and for the detected objects. The probability ranges of the pivoting zones of the vehicle doors are respectively compared with the individual probability ranges of the objects, in order to determine whether they overlap. If an overlap is identified, a response; signal that indicates the risk of a collision is generated.

Process and device for avoiding collision while opening vehicle doors

Information system in a vehicle, having a plurality of information sources for outputting respectively associated information. The information which is to be output is generated and/or filtered as a function of the state of the driver and/or of the behavior of the driver. The state of the driver and/or of the behavior of the driver is determined by of data from one or more driving systems of the vehicle and/or one or more comfort systems of the vehicle. At least one of the information sources generates the information which is to be output with a frequency which depends on the state of the driver and/or the behavior of the driver.

Information system in a motor vehicle with driving-style-dependent production of information to be outputted

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Boeblingen, Germany

Edgar Bihler