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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
May. 15, 2017
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Michael Heimrath, Fuerstenfeldbruck, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
In order to support the driving of an ego-vehicle, the following steps are carried out: gathering information from the environment of the ego-vehicle; processing the gathered information, in such a way that it is detected whether a neighboring vehicle is in the environment of the ego-vehicle, and if a neighboring vehicle is detected, additionally gathering and/or processing information relating to the neighboring vehicle in order to assign at least one typical attribute to the neighboring vehicle; and, according to the at least one typical attribute of the neighboring vehicle, providing control information for driving the ego-vehicle.