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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
May. 15, 2014
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Ulf Wilhelm, Rutsheim, DE;
Sybille Eisele, Hessigheim, DE;
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method and a device for avoiding a possible subsequent collision and for reducing the accident consequences of a collision, in which after a first collision of the vehicle with a further road user has taken place, an automatic braking intervention by a vehicle safety system is released according to a braking model by ascertaining vehicle data from the handling of the host vehicle, buffering the vehicle data ascertained in a memory, inferring the category of the road being traveled on at the moment from the buffered vehicle data, determining an initial distance as a function of the road category determined, and ascertaining the condition for releasing the brake using this initial distance.