Method and Device for Avoiding a Collision in a Lane Change Maneuver of a Vehicle

A method for avoiding a collision in a lane change maneuver of a vehicle from an instantaneous lane to a target lane, the method comprising:

• detecting objects in a lateral rearward space of the vehicle;
• and
• taking measures are to influence the vehicle, wherein graded measures are provided, and the graded measures, depending on their stage, involve at least one of warning a driver, intervening into a steering system of the vehicle, and influencing a safety device, and measures of a selected stage are initiated, with the stage being determined depending on at least one of a relative position of a detected object (4) with regard to the vehicle (1) and a relative speed between the vehicle (1) and the detected object (4) as well as depending on fulfillment of a lane change condition.

The method of 66, wherein the reversible safety element is a reversible seat-belt pretensioning system.

A device for avoiding a collision in a lane change maneuver of a vehicle to a target lane, the device comprising:

• an ambience monitoring device that is used to sense objects in a rearward space of the vehicle;
• a danger computer that initiates graded measures to influence the vehicle (1), with the graded measures, corresponding to a respective stages, including at least one of warning a driver, intervening into a steering system of the vehicle (1), and influencing a safety element, wherein the danger computer initiates measures of a stage, which can be determined depending on at least one of a relative position of a detected object (4) with regard to the vehicle (1) or a relative speed between the vehicle (1) and the detected object (4), and also depends on a fulfillment of a lane change condition.