Method for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle with respect to an imminent overtaking maneuver, and motor vehicle

US10643470B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AUDI AG · DE

Inventors

• Daniel Profendiner · Ingolstadt, DE
• Torsten SCHÖN · Pietenfeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 2016
• Grant date: May 5, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/164
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle regarding an imminent overtaking maneuver by a driver assistance system, wherein the suitability of an overtaking process, which is ascertained from overtaking information, is output to a driver To determine the overtaking information, route data which relates to route sections and which influences the evaluation of the suitability of an overtaking process on a route section is ascertained by a plurality of data acquiring motor vehicles during a driving process along a route and is received by a vehicle-external central computing device. The route data assigned to a route section by each different motor vehicle is statistically evaluated to determine the overtaking information relating to the route section. The overtaking information is provided to all of the motor vehicles which have a driver assistance system.