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AssigneeVolkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsFrank Bärecke, Steve Simon, Thomas Kolms
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Method for automatically carrying out safety measures when a vehicle drives on a shoulder, as well as electronic vehicle guidance system, and vehicle The invention relates to a method for automatically carrying out safety measures when a vehicle (1) drives on a shoulder (10) differing from a roadway (3), comprising the following steps: detecting the shoulder (10) which differs from the roadway (3) and laterally adjoins the roadway (3) by means of a detection apparatus (7) of the vehicle (1), providing information regarding the position and/or type of the shoulder (10) to the vehicle (1), recognizing that the vehicle (1) is driving on the shoulder (10) by means of an electronic evaluation unit (8), evaluating a dangerous situation which accompanies the driving of the vehicle (1) on the shoulder (10) and/or can accompany the same in the future, by means of the electronic evaluation unit (8), carrying out a safety measure by tensioning at least one safety belt (13) of a restraint system (14) of the vehicle (1) depending on the evaluated dangerous situation. The invention also relates to an electronic vehicle guidance system (4) and to a vehicle (1).
A method for automatically carrying out safety measures when a vehicle (1) drives on a shoulder (10) different from a roadway (3) comprising the following steps:
The method according to one of the preceding claims, wherein a classification database (16) is consulted for evaluating the dangerous situation of the recognized driving on the shoulder (10), wherein the dangerous situation is classified by means of the classification database (16) so that the dangerous situation of driving on the shoulder (10) can be assigned to a first dangerous scenario according to a first class, or at least to a second dangerous scenario according to a second class.
The method according to one of the preceding claims, wherein in order to evaluate the dangerous situation of driving on the shoulder (10), a region (11) in the environment (6) of the shoulder (10) different from the roadway (3) and the shoulder (10) which directly abuts the shoulder (10) is taken into account, in particular, this region (11) is also detected by the detection apparatus (7).
The method according to one of the preceding claims, wherein the tensioning of the at least one safety belt (13) of the restraint system (14) of the vehicle (1) is carried out in a cascaded manner depending on the evaluated dangerous situation, in particular, a tensed state of the at least one safety belt (13) is adjusted depending on the dangerous situation and/or a change in the dangerous situation, in particular, a first tensed state of the at least one safety belt (13) is set upon recognizing the driving on the shoulder (10), and a second tensed state of the at least one safety belt (13), which is tighter than the first tensed state, is set depending on the dangerous situation and/or the change in the dangerous situation.
The method according to one of the preceding claims, wherein at least one piece of information relating to the recognized driving on the shoulder (10) is saved in a digital map, wherein this information is taken into account in a future evaluation of a dangerous situation of a vehicle driving on a shoulder (10), in particular, the electronic evaluation unit (8) for evaluating the dangerous situation is trained by machine with a machine learning algorithm depending on the digital map and/or other information relating to driving on a shoulder (10).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.