Abstract: A longitudinal movement of a vehicle is automatically regulated by detecting, using recorded signals of an environment sensor system an environment of the vehicle and objects located. A state of a traffic light system to be accounted for by the vehicle at a traffic light signal controlled junction in order for the vehicle to pass through the junction is determined. When the vehicle approaches the junction, it is recognized that a view of the environment sensor system of the traffic light system may be obscured by a vehicle in front, then a minimum distance of the vehicle to the vehicle in front is determined depending on a current position of the vehicle in relation to the traffic light system and in relation to the vehicle in front, which minimum distance is used as the basis of the automatic regulation of the longitudinal movement and is not undershot by the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for determining an action strategy of a vehicle driving in the automated driving operation when nearing a vehicle ahead which is stationary in its lane. The vehicle behind the stationary vehicle ahead stops and waits to restart its driving operation until the vehicle ahead starts up. If the vehicle is waiting for longer than a pre-determined waiting time, the vehicle initiates an overtaking maneuver to overtake the vehicle ahead, requests support via a teleoperator and/or transmits a request to take over a driving task to a vehicle user of the vehicle.

Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle in the automated driving operation involves continuously monitoring a rear space of the vehicle. If a following vehicle is recorded coming critically close to the vehicle, a warning is output to the following vehicle. If, after a period of time which can be pre-determined, the following vehicle continues to come critically close to the vehicle, a takeover request relating to a driving task is transmitted to a vehicle user of the vehicle.

Abstract: A driving speed of vehicles adapted to a driving situation is determined when an object located next to a roadway of a vehicle obscures at least portions of a bend lying ahead of the vehicle. Detected speed behavior of other vehicles in the region of the bend, in which a driving speed of the other vehicles in each case falls below a predetermined locally permissible maximum speed for negotiating the bend, is transmitted to an external computer unit. A position of the obscuring object is transmitted to the computer unit, which checks for a causal relationship between the detected speed behavior of the other vehicles and the obscuring object. If there is a causal relationship, an average driving speed for negotiating the bend is stored as a speed recommendation and made available at least to vehicles coupled to the computer unit for data exchange.