US 12,304,496 B2
Method for adapting a functionality of a vehicle that is automatically carried out by an assistance system, and a driver assistance system
Steven Peters, Schwieberdingen (DE); Dimitra Theofanou-Fuelbier, Esslingen (DE); Jens Eisele, Stuttgart (DE); Joana Hois, Böblingen (DE); and Stefan Studer, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
Appl. No. 17/910,116
Filed by MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG, Stuttgart (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/053724
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/180433, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 16, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 001 539.5 (DE), filed on Mar. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0095245 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 40/08 (2013.01) [B60W 60/00 (2020.02); B60W 2050/0063 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0075 (2013.01); B60W 2540/22 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for adapting a functionality of a vehicle that is automatically performed by an assistance system of the vehicle, the method comprising:
determining that the automatically performed functionality is aborted by a driver of the vehicle;
recording and saving an indication of the abortion responsive to the determination that the automatically performed functionality is aborted;
determining that a number of abortions of the automatically performed functionality exceeds a predetermined threshold value;
determining a location of each of the number of abortions are spatially clustered around a position; and
replacing, responsive to the determination that the number of the abortions exceeds the predetermined threshold value and to the determination that the location of each of the number of abortions are spatially clustered around the position, the aborted automatically performed functionality with a modified or new functionality to be performed at the position,
wherein the automatically performed functionality is an automatically set route of the vehicle, and
wherein the new or modified functionality is that, at the position, a route comprising an alternate road or alternate exit taken by the driver following the number of abortions replaces the automatically set route of the vehicle at the position.