Method for informing other road users in the surroundings of an ego vehicle during parking
AssigneeContinental Automotive Technologies GmbH
InventorsYongjiang Sun, Attila Jaeger, Timo Hamm, Amin Jeribi, Harald Feifel
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Abstract
Upon initiating an automated parking space search and/or an at least partly automated parking process, an ego vehicle automatically provides information on at least its current position, initiation of the automated parking space search and/or a parking process, including a parking safety zone that it requires for parking, to other road users in the surroundings of the ego vehicle.
Claims10
A method for informing, by V2X communication, other road users in the surroundings of an ego vehicle, wherein, upon initiating an automated parking space search and/or an at least partly automated parking process, the ego vehicle automatically provides information on at least a current position of the ego vehicle and the initiation of the automated parking space search and/or a parking process to other road users in the surroundings of the ego vehicle, wherein the other road users are notified of a parking safety zone, which the ego vehicle needs at least during the automated parking process and which the ego vehicle reserves for itself during the parking space search and/or the automated parking process, wherein the parking safety zone includes the ego vehicle's current location, a driving path for moving, in reverse, from the ego vehicle's current position to a parallel-parking parking area to thereby avoid the parallel-parking parking area from being occupied in the meantime by another road user and to avoid the ego vehicle's path to the parallel-parking parking area from being blocked by another road user.
A motor vehicle having sensors for detecting a parking space, a V2X communication device for informing other road users and/or network service providers, and an automotive electronic control unit having a program for performing operations comprising:
- automatically providing information on at least a current position of the motor vehicle and the initiation of the automated parking space search and/or a parking process to other road users in the surroundings of the motor vehicle, wherein the other road users are notified of a parking safety zone, which the motor vehicle needs at least during the automated parking process and which the motor vehicle reserves for itself during the parking space search and/or the automated parking process, wherein the parking safety zone includes the motor vehicle's current location, a driving path for moving in reverse, from the motor vehicle's current position to a parallel-parking parking area to thereby avoid the parallel-parking parking area from being occupied in the meantime by another road user and to avoid the motor vehicle's path to the parallel-parking parking area from being blocked by another road user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.