Trailer active back-up assist with lane width HMI
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1. A vehicle, comprising:
- a communication interface for enabling information to be communicated to and from an occupant of the vehicle; and
a trailer back-up assist system coupled to the communication interface, wherein the trailer back-up assist system is operable to determine a selected width of a lane within which the vehicle and an attached trailer are to be backed from a current position of the vehicle to reach a targeted location for the attached trailer and to output to an occupant of the vehicle via the communication interface information characterizing an ability of the vehicle to be backed within the lane from the current position of the vehicle.
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Abstract
A vehicle comprises a communication interface for enabling information to be communicated to a and from an occupant of the vehicle and a trailer back-up assist system coupled to the communication interface. The trailer back-up assist system is operable for determining a selected width of a lane within which the vehicle and an attached trailer are to be backed from a current position of the vehicle to reach a targeted location for the attached trailer and for outputting to the occupant of the vehicle via the communication interface information characterizing an ability of the vehicle to be backed within the lane from the current position of the vehicle.
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1. A vehicle, comprising:
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a communication interface for enabling information to be communicated to and from an occupant of the vehicle; and a trailer back-up assist system coupled to the communication interface, wherein the trailer back-up assist system is operable to determine a selected width of a lane within which the vehicle and an attached trailer are to be backed from a current position of the vehicle to reach a targeted location for the attached trailer and to output to an occupant of the vehicle via the communication interface information characterizing an ability of the vehicle to be backed within the lane from the current position of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for assisting a driver to back a vehicle-trailer combination, comprising:
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at least one data processing device accessing, from memory coupled to the at least one data processing device, instructions causing the at least one data processing device to determine a selected width of a lane within which the vehicle-trailer combination is to be backed from a current position of the vehicle-trailer combination to reach a targeted location; and the at least one data processing device accessing, from the memory, instructions causing the at least one data processing device to output to a driver of a vehicle of the vehicle-trailer combination information characterizing an ability of the vehicle to be backed within the lane from the current position of the vehicle-trailer combination. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An electronic controller system having a set of instructions tangibly embodied on a non-transitory processor-readable medium thereof, the set of instructions is accessible from the non-transitory processor-readable medium by at least one data processing device of the electronic controller system for being interpreted thereby, and the set of instructions is configured for causing the at least one data processing device to carry out operations for:
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determining a selected width of a lane within which the vehicle-trailer combination is to be backed from a current position of the vehicle-trailer combination to reach a targeted location; and outputting to a driver of a vehicle of the vehicle-trailer combination information characterizing an ability of the vehicle to be backed within the lane from the current position of the vehicle-trailer combination. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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