MOTOR VEHICLE HAVING A DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM

• US 20090287368A1
• Filed: 05/12/2009
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC (General Motors Company)
• Original Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations Incorporated (Motors Liquidation Co. GUC Trust)
• Inventors: BONNE, Uwe
• Application Number:
  US12/464,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20090287368A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/29
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 17/221 Procedure or apparatus for checking or keeping in a correct functioning condition of brake systems hydraulic pressure systems in general F15B19/00, F15B21/04; testing structures or apparatus G01M
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/12 for automatic initiation; for initiation not subject to will of driver or passenger limiting speed of vehicles other than rail vehicles B60K31/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/18 operated by wayside apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096725 where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication

Abstract

A motor vehicle has a driver assistance system for outputting a warning message and/or for engaging in a driving operation, an activity of the driver assistance system occurring if a variable triggering threshold is exceeded. To increase the active and passive traffic safety, further external circumstances, in particular influencing variables which have an influence on the driving behavior, the braking distance, and the skid resistance of the motor vehicle, for example, may be taken into consideration during the driving operation.

Claims

1. A motor vehicle, comprising:

a first sensor adapted to sense a distance of a road user from the motor vehicle;

a second sensor adapted to sense an influence on a driving behavior of the motor vehicle; and

a driver assistance system adapted to receive the distance and the influence and initiate an action based on an evaluation of at least the distance and the influence.

2. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the action comprises generation of a warning.

3. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the action comprises engaging a driving operation.

4. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein at least the distance and the influence are used to select a variable triggering threshold and the evaluation comprises a comparison to determine if the variable triggering threshold is exceeded.

5. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises a braking distance of the motor vehicle.

6. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises a skid resistance of the motor vehicle.

7. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises a static friction value between a wheel of the motor vehicle and a road surface.

8. The motor vehicle according to claim 7, wherein the static friction value is ascertained based at least in part on information comprising a basis of a slip of the wheel.

9. The motor vehicle according to claim 7, wherein the static friction value is ascertained based at least in part on information comprising a temperature of the motor vehicle.

10. The motor vehicle according to claim 7, wherein the static friction value is ascertained based at least in part on information comprising a wear of the motor vehicle.

11. The motor vehicle according to claim 7, wherein the static friction value is ascertained based at least in part on information comprising an operating time of a tire of the motor vehicle.

12. The motor vehicle according to claim 7, wherein the static friction value is ascertained based at least in part on information comprising navigation system information of the motor vehicle.

13. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises vision conditions.

14. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises information from a rain sensor.

15. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises information from a fog sensor of the motor vehicle.

16. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises an altered deceleration condition.

17. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises a presence of a trailer.

18. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises driver attentiveness.

19. The motor vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the influence comprises a traffic density.