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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2021
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Philipp Kretschmann, Manching, DE;
Johannes Reschke, Langquaid, DE;
Markus Birkner, Regensburg, DE;
Georg Maier, Kinding-Haunstetten, DE;
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
Abstract
A method for operating a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle is configured to execute a driving maneuver that can be executed without a driver, wherein, before the driving maneuver is executed by a computing device of the motor vehicle, a check is made to determine that at least one admissibility requirement for the execution of the driving maneuver is met. The execution of an operator action required to start the execution of the driving maneuver, executed by a user of the motor vehicle positioned outside the motor vehicle, is detected, or the absence thereof up to the present time is detected. The execution of the operator action can be detected by a monitoring device connected to the computing device, and/or based on a transmission of data describing the execution of the operator action to a communication device of the motor vehicle connected to the computing device. Depending on whether the at least one admissibility requirement is met and depending on whether or not the at least one operator action is executed, the computing device determines a state from a group of possible states. A signaling device of the motor vehicle is actuated to generate a signal assigned to the determined state from a group of distinguishable signals that can be perceived outside the motor vehicle and that are each assigned to one of the possible states.