Methods for controlling the driving operation of a vehicle

An assistance system of a vehicle, the assistance system comprising:

• at least one control unit;
• at least one sensor system including at least one sensor that, in operation, generates sensor data;
• at least one camera that, in operation, generates environmental images;
• and
• a computing unit that, in operation, determines degree of passability of objects,
• wherein the computing unit, in operation,
• optically identifies relevant objects in front of the vehicle in a driving direction based on the sensor data and the environmental images;
• classifies the relevant objects based on the sensor data and/or based on a picture of one or more of the relevant objects into known relevant objects and into unknown relevant objects;
• associates a degree of passability with the known relevant objects, wherein the degree of passability is stored in a control unit;
• further processes the unknown relevant objects by inputting a picture of each of the unknown relevant objects into a computing unit that estimates the degree of passability of objects,
• identifies the unknown relevant objects and associating the degree of passability for the unknown relevant objects by the computing unit and providing the degree of passability for the unknown relevant objects to the control unit, and
• controls a driving operation of the vehicle using the degree of passability of the known relevant objects and the unknown relevant objects.