Patent ID: 8489318

Claim:
An emergency brake assistant for automatically decelerating a vehicle to prevent a collision or reduce the consequences of a collision with a detected collision object, at a determined intervention point in time, wherein a brake system of the vehicle is automatically activated such that a collision with the detected collision object can be prevented or consequences of the collision can be reduced, wherein the intervention point in time is determined as a function of a determined end point in time of a driver reaction time and of a determined last-possible braking point in time and of a determined last-possible evading point in time, wherein the determined intervention point in time is determined such that, at the determined end point in time of the driver reaction time, which occurs before the determined last-possible braking point in time, the last possible braking point in time is defined as a preliminary intervention point in time, or that, at the determined end point in time of the driver reaction time, which occurs before the determined last-possible evading point in time and after the determined last-possible braking point in time, the last-possible braking point in time or the determined end point in time of the driver reaction time is defined as the preliminary intervention point in time, or that, at the determined last-possible evading point in time, which occurs after the determined last-possible braking point in time and before the determined end point in time of the driver reaction time, the last possible braking point in time is defined as the preliminary intervention point in time.