Method for operating a motor vehicle during fully automatic vehicle guidance

• Main Authors: BOGNER ANDREAS, DE BRUIN DIRK, SCHIEHLEN JOACHIM
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 15.04.2015
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle by means of a control unit during operation of a fully-automatic driver assistance system which is designed to guide the vehicle independently of the driver, the control unit actuating a drive unit and/or a brake unit during operation of said driver assistance system such that the motor vehicle maintains a predefined distance to a vehicle in front which is detected as a target object, the control unit also actuating the actuation unit of a steering system such that the motor vehicle is kept within its own detected lane. If the vehicle in front, detected as the target object, leaves said detected lane and if there is no new preceding vehicle, a braking action is performed.