US 12,415,517 B2
Vehicle guidance system and method for automated starting of a vehicle
Bartono Adiprasito, Tiefenbach (DE); Helena Dolinaj, Munich (DE); Maximilian Guenther, Munich (DE); Frank Herchet, Neufahrn b. Freising (DE); Martin Jaensch, Munich (DE); Markus Kraemer, Dachau (DE); Julius Schulz, Munich (DE); and Muhammed Yildiz, Kirchseeon (DE)
Assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 18/031,179
Filed by Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Oct. 6, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/077586
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 11, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/078848, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 126 678.2 (DE), filed on Oct. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406313 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/16 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/18154 (2013.01) [B60W 30/16 (2013.01); B60W 30/18027 (2013.01); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle system for providing a driving function for automated longitudinal guidance of a vehicle at a signaling unit, comprising:
a vehicle guidance system configured, during operation of the driving function, to:
determine that the vehicle is at a signaling unit;
detect that a driver of the vehicle actuates an operating element of a user interface of the vehicle for controlling the driving function; and
cause the vehicle to be started from a standstill in an automated manner in response to the detected actuation of the operating element.