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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2021
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Bartono Adiprasito, Tiefenbach, DE;
Helena Dolinaj, Munich, DE;
Maximilian Guenther, Munich, DE;
Frank Herchet, Neufahrn b. Freising, DE;
Martin Jaensch, Munich, DE;
Markus Kraemer, Dachau, DE;
Julius Schulz, Munich, DE;
Muhammed Yildiz, Kirchseeon, DE;
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A vehicle control system provides a driving function for the automated longitudinal control of a vehicle. The vehicle control system is configured to ascertain, based on environmental data related to a preceding vehicle driving in front of the vehicle in question, that the preceding vehicle is crossing an intersection associated with a signaling unit. The vehicle control system is additionally configured to automatedly control, in reaction to the ascertainment, the vehicle across the intersection behind the preceding vehicle even if the vehicle control system has been unable to unequivocally ascertain the status of the signaling unit in respect of the vehicle being allowed to cross the intersection.