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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2019
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Marc Breisinger, Munich, DE;
Nora Broy, Munich, DE;
Julian Eichhorn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sebastian Hergeth, Munich, DE;
Philipp Kerschbaum, Munich, DE;
Hermann Kuenzner, Freising, DE;
Lutz Lorenz, Deisenhofen, DE;
Stephan Mueller, Munich, DE;
Julia Niemann, Berlin, DE;
Frederik Platten, Munich, DE;
Wolfgang Spiessl, Munich, DE;
Philipp Suessenguth, Munich, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A driving system for an automated drive for a motor vehicle includes a steering wheel display with a lighting strip structure. The lighting strip structure of the steering wheel display is luminous in a defined lighting color for a duration which can be modified according to the actuation. The driving system is designed to control the steering wheel display such that the lighting strip structure is luminous in the lighting color over a starting length during the automated drive. Upon approaching an end of the automated drive lying ahead, the driving system determines that the vehicle has approached an end point of the automated drive lying ahead in such a manner that a specified approach condition has been satisfied. In response thereto, the steering wheel display is actuated such that the lighting strip structure is luminous in the lighting color with a successively decreasing length starting from the starting length as the distance to the end point of the automated drive decreases successively in order to prepare the driver to completely or at least partly take over control of the vehicle again.