Volkswagen Ag

Thomas Kolms

Arne Bartels

Frank Bärecke

Sebastian Busch

Timo Klingemann

Amogh Sakpal

Robin Braeutigam

Stephan Kopischke

Robin Bräutigam

Steve Simon

Robin Krings

Stefan Hauck

The disclosure relates to a method for automatically carrying out safety measures when a vehicle drives on a shoulder differing from a roadway, comprising the following: detecting the shoulder which differs from the roadway and laterally adjoins the roadway by means of a detection apparatus of the vehicle, providing information regarding the position and/or type of the shoulder to the vehicle, recognizing that the vehicle is driving on the shoulder by means of an electronic evaluation unit, dangerous evaluating a situation which accompanies the driving of the vehicle on the shoulder and/or can accompany the same in the future, by means of the electronic evaluation unit, and carrying out a safety measure by tensioning at least one safety belt of a restraint system of the vehicle depending on the evaluated dangerous situation.

Method for automatically carrying out safety measures when a vehicle drives on a shoulder, electronic vehicle guidance system, and vehicle

Technologies and techniques for operating an assistance system of a motor vehicle for providing a shoulder function. Under a first condition, a motor vehicle is detected on a shoulder of a roadway via at least one detecting apparatus in accordance with at least one predetermined first criterion. Under a second condition, a steering behavior of a driver of the motor vehicle is determined in accordance with a second criterion, where a shoulder function is executed in accordance with which an automatic driving intervention. Under a third condition, an obstacle ahead of the motor vehicle in the direction of travel is detected by the at least one detecting apparatus in accordance with a specified third criterion, where a control signal influencing the execution of the shoulder function is output.

Assistance system and method for avoiding false activations of a shoulder function

Technologies and techniques for operating an assistance system in a motor vehicle with which a driving a shoulder by the motor vehicle is detected by means of at least one detection device in the assistance system, and with which a control signal is generated by means of an electronic computing device in the assistance system for engaging with a functional unit in the motor vehicle. The shoulder that is detected is evaluated in terms of the type of shoulder, and a critical or non-critical driving of the vehicle on the shoulder is determined on the basis of the type of shoulder, and the control signal is generated in the case of a critical driving on the shoulder. The present disclosure also relates to an assistance system.

Method for operating a motor vehicle assistance system and an assistance system

A method for terminating driving on the road shoulder by a transportation vehicle includes detection by a detection unit that the transportation vehicle is situated at least partially on a road shoulder, determination of a steering intensity of a manual steering maneuver, and assignment of one of at least two predetermined steering codes to the steering maneuver by a computing unit as a function of the steering intensity. An automatic intervention into a transportation vehicle control is carried out as a function of the assigned steering code.

Method for ending a drive of a transportation vehicle

In a method for ending shoulder driving, it is detected by means of a detection unit of a motor vehicle that a wheel is located on a shoulder. By means of a sensor unit, a driver's reaction is recorded, and by means of a computing unit, the driver's reaction is assigned to one of at least two intensity classes. By means of a control unit, an intervention in controlling the vehicle is undertaken counteracting the driver's reaction when the driver's reaction has been assigned to a first intensity class, and an intervention supporting the driver's reaction is undertaken when the driver's reaction has been assigned to a second intensity class.

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Wasbüttel, Germany

Thomas Kolms