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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2022
Applicant:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4049 (2020.02); B60W 2554/406 (2020.02);
Abstract
A method for assisting a vehicle user during a lane change maneuver includes receiving a navigation command for performing the lane change maneuver from a second lane to a first lane of a road; searching for gaps for the vehicle in the first lane and selecting one of the gaps; defining a far field, a mid field and a near field; and performing the search and/or the selection of the gap according to a predefined sequence in which first a region of the far field, then a region of the mid field, and then the near field are checked.