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Method for controlling a vehicle, and control apparatus for a vehicle

US11587443B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Vladimir HALTAKOV · Munich, DE
Pascal Minnerup · Unterschleißheim, DE
Daniel Niehues · Unterschleißheim, DE
Maxi WINTER · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 13, 2022
Grant date	Feb 21, 2023
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 13, 2042

Classification

Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
CPC primaryB60W2554/80
WIPO fieldTransport
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method for controlling a first vehicle, travelling on a road, that has a second vehicle travelling ahead of it, includes the steps of: scanning the second vehicle from the first vehicle by use of multiple sensors; providing individual determinations, each on the basis of scans by only one of the sensors, concerning whether the first and the second vehicle are travelling in the same lane of the road, wherein each sensor has an associated determination certainty; and providing a collision warning if a product of the determination certainties is below a predetermined threshold value.

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