Patent ID: 8665117

Claim:
A method for assisting a parking process of a vehicle into a longitudinal parking space which is arranged next to a carriageway, comprising: measuring the longitudinal parking space as the vehicle travels past the longitudinal parking space using a measuring device, wherein the measuring device determines a position of a front boundary and/or of a rear boundary of the longitudinal parking space; defining a parked position of the vehicle within the longitudinal parking space using an evaluation device on the basis of the position of the front boundary and/or rear boundary; and determining a parking path of the vehicle into the parked position using the evaluation device, wherein a profile of travel of the vehicle is measured by the measuring device as said vehicle passes the longitudinal parking space and is additionally taken into account in the definition of the parked position of the vehicle by the evaluation device, wherein the parked position is defined by the evaluation device so that the orientation of the vehicle in the parked position corresponds to an averaged orientation of the travel.