US 12,296,886 B2
Method for operating a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle
Philipp Kretschmann, Manching (DE); Johannes Reschke, Langquaid (DE); Markus Birkner, Regensburg (DE); and Georg Maier, Kinding-Haunstetten (DE)
Assigned to AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
Appl. No. 17/997,449
Filed by AUDI AG, Ingolstadt (DE)
PCT Filed Apr. 12, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/059367
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 28, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/219350, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 111 476.1 (DE), filed on Apr. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0264627 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. B62D 15/02 (2006.01); B60Q 1/50 (2006.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01)
CPC B62D 15/0285 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/507 (2022.05); B60Q 1/543 (2022.05); B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for executing a driving maneuver by a motor vehicle without a driver, wherein, before the driving maneuver is executed by a computing device of the motor vehicle, the method comprises:
checking to determine that a motor vehicle-internal admissibility requirement and a motor vehicle-external admissibility requirement via communication with an infrastructure for an execution of the driving maneuver are met;
detecting an execution of an operator action either by a monitoring device connected to the computing device, and/or based on a transmission of data describing the execution of the operator action to a communication device of the motor vehicle connected to the computing device, wherein the execution of the operator action is required to start the execution of the driving maneuver, the execution of the operator action being performed by a user of the motor vehicle located outside the motor vehicle;
determining, by the computing device, a state of the motor vehicle from a group of possible states, depending on whether the motor vehicle-internal admissibility requirement and the motor vehicle-external admissibility requirement are met and depending on whether or not the operator action is executed; and
actuating a signaling device of the motor vehicle to generate a signal assigned to the determined state that can be perceived outside the motor vehicle, wherein each signal from a group of distinguishable signals is assigned to one of the group of possible states.