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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2016
Applicant:

Volkswagen Ag, Wolfsburg, DE;

Inventors:

Thomas Eigel, Berlin, DE;

Peter Mirwaldt, Braunschweig, DE;

Bastian Schmidt, Hannover, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/08 (2012.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); B60W 40/09 (2012.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/08 (2013.01); B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 30/18109 (2013.01); B60W 40/09 (2013.01); B62D 15/0285 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0818 (2013.01); B60W 2540/26 (2013.01); B60W 2550/10 (2013.01); B60W 2550/406 (2013.01); B60W 2900/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for safely parking a vehicle, wherein after identifying an emergency situation of the motor vehicle, an emergency stopping position region is selected from a digital map, and the vehicle is parked within the emergency stopping position region by an automatic driving function. The method includes registering the surroundings, determining stationary objects and conditions in the vicinity of the vehicle within the selected emergency stopping position region, checking the conditions in the vicinity of the vehicle and the stationary objects within the emergency stopping position region regarding parking the vehicle in an optimized manner and determining an optimized emergency stopping position within the emergency stopping position region, and parking the vehicle at the optimized emergency stopping position within the emergency stopping position region using the automatic driving function.


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