Patent ID: 11866036
Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 14:
15. A method for operating a motor vehicle, comprising:
detecting automatically at least one obstacle using sensors on board the motor vehicle;
determining automatically a risk of frontal collision for a collision of the motor vehicle with the obstacle based on one or more of driving state data of the motor vehicle and environmental data of the motor vehicle;
determining automatically at least one evasion trajectory for mitigating or preventing the collision;
detecting automatically if the obstacle is another vehicle, which vehicle is approaching the motor vehicle;
determining, whether the risk of frontal collision is greater than a predefined first threshold value;
selectively determining whether a control action of a driver of the motor vehicle is guiding the vehicle along the determined evasion trajectory; and
selectively modifying the control action of the driver automatically such that the motor vehicle is guided along the determined evasion trajectory by the modified control action;
optimizing a probability of successful evasion and a driving stability of the motor vehicle during evasion; and
determining, depending on one or more of properties of driving mechanics of the motor vehicle, a density of traffic in an environment of the motor vehicle, a relative speed between the motor vehicle and the obstacle, and road conditions, whether an automatic braking action should be carried out and determining, when the automatic braking action should be carried out, relative to a steering action in order to guide the motor vehicle along the evasion trajectory.