Patent ID: 9669872
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: B60Q,B60W,B62D,G01S,G08G

Claim:
1. A method for assisting a driver of a host vehicle in potential lane change situations, comprising the steps of: producing sensor data by at least one sensor physically sensing the environment of the host vehicle, predicting, based on the produced sensor data, future movement behavior of at last one sensed vehicle before the start of the movement behavior of said at least one sensed vehicle, wherein it is predicted whether or not said at least one sensed vehicle will perform a lane change, determining whether a gap on a neighboring lane of the host vehicle exists, generating, if the neighboring lane of the host vehicle would fit better for the predicted future movement behavior, a recommendation information signal regarding feasibility of a lane change of the host vehicle to this better fitting lane, the feasibility being determined by computationally combining the determination result of the existence of a gap and the predicted future movement behavior, and at least one of outputting a notification for the host vehicle's driver and, in case that a lane change is feasible, generating signals for performing an autonomous lane change on the basis of the recommendation information signal by the host vehicle.