US 12,246,715 B2
Method for controlling an approach of a vehicle, distance control system, computer program, and memory unit
Thorsten Schori, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed by Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart (DE)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/843,673.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2021 206 863.4 (DE), filed on Jun. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0001927 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/16 (2020.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/16 (2013.01) [B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 50/085 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0083 (2013.01); B60W 2540/12 (2013.01); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling a driving vehicle, for which a minimum inter-vehicle distance is predefined, the controlling being performed when the driving vehicle is changing from a first lane into a second lane in which a reference vehicle is present at a longitudinally more forward position than the driving vehicle, the controlling being performed using an automated distance setting, the method comprising the following steps:
based on a manual actuation by a driver to change an actuating position of an actuating element of the vehicle to brake the vehicle during the changing of the vehicle from the first lane to the second lane, reducing a minimum inter-vehicle distance that has been predefined for the driving vehicle; and
controlling a braking deceleration of the vehicle according to the reduced minimum inter-vehicle distance.