Assistance System for Supporting a Driver of a Vehicle When Forming an Emergency Lane, Taking Into Account Other Road Users, Vehicle and Method

An assistance system for supporting a driver of a vehicle when forming an emergency lane, wherein the assistance system is configured to:

• receive surroundings data, wherein the surroundings data describe lanes of a roadway and describe a position and a speed of further road users on the roadway;
• determine whether a predetermined emergency lane situation exists, in which the emergency lane is to be formed by the vehicle;
• determine a lane edge, to which the vehicle is to be moved to form the emergency lane;
• and
• carry out an automated lateral control of the vehicle to the lane edge if the predetermined emergency lane situation exists;
• determine a differential speed between the vehicle and at least one of the further road users on an adjacent lane based on the surroundings data;
• determine a lateral distance of the at least one of the further road users to a roadway marking of the adjacent lane based on the surroundings data;
• and
• carry out the automated lateral control depending on the differential speed or the lateral distance.

A method for supporting a driver of a vehicle when forming an emergency lane, the method comprising:

• receiving surroundings data, wherein the surroundings data describe lanes of a roadway and describe a position and a speed of further road users on the roadway;
• determining whether a predetermined emergency lane situation exists, in which the emergency lane is to be formed by the vehicle;
• determining a lane edge, to which the vehicle is to be moved to form the emergency lane;
• carrying out an automated lateral control of the vehicle to the lane edge if the predetermined emergency lane situation exists,
• determining a differential speed between the vehicle and at least one of the further road users on an adjacent lane based on the surroundings data;
• determining a lateral distance of the at least one of the further road users to a roadway marking of the adjacent lane based on the surroundings data;
• and
• carrying out the automated lateral control depending on the differential speed or the lateral distance.