Method for operating a driver assistance system
AssigneeZF Friedrichshafen AG
InventorsThomas Jäger, Bülent Sari, Hana Niederbrucker
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Abstract
A method for operating a vehicle includes detecting a road user in a predetermined portion of a vehicle's environment, detecting a start-up attempt by vehicle driver, blocking a vehicle start-up in response to the detection of a road user in the vehicle's environment and to the detected start-up attempt, and altering a vehicle control such that the comfort of the driver is reduced in comparison with an unaltered vehicle control when the vehicle start-up has been blocked.
Claims15
A method for operating a vehicle with a driver assistance system, the method comprising:
- detecting a road user in a predetermined environment of the vehicle by the driver assistance system;
- detecting a start-up attempt by the driver of the vehicle;
- blocking a vehicle start-up by the driver assistance system in response to the detection of a road user in the predetermined environment and to the detected start-up attempt;
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- altering a vehicle control such that comfort for the driver of the vehicle is reduced in comparison with an unaltered vehicle control when the vehicle start-up has been previously blocked.
A driver assistance system for a vehicle comprising:
- a detection device configured to detect a road user in a predetermined portion of a vehicle's environment;
- a detection device configured to detect a start-up attempt by the vehicle driver;
- a blocking device configured to block a vehicle start-up in response to the detection of the road user in predetermined portion of the vehicle's environment and to the detected start-up attempt;
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- a control device configured to alter a vehicle control such that comfort for the driver of the vehicle is reduced in comparison with an unaltered vehicle control when the vehicle start-up has been blocked.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.