Patent ID: 8754761

Claim:
A control system for automatically guiding a vehicle during a parking procedure, comprising: a monitoring unit configured to monitor a brake pedal or its spatial area of the vehicle to ascertain a braking readiness of the driver of the vehicle, and to determine if the brake pedal is depressed, wherein the braking readiness is characterized by the brake pedal of the vehicle contacted but not depressed by a foot of the driver, or the foot of the driver being located in a predefined spatial area near the brake pedal but not depressing the brake pedal; and a main control unit having an interface to the monitoring unit and controlling the automatic parking procedure guiding of the vehicle based on a surrounding detection unit output and guidance control, wherein the automatic guiding of the vehicle is interrupted if the braking readiness of a driver is not detected by the monitoring unit, and also interrupted if the brake pedal is depressed.