Abstract: A method for the automatic operation of a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode not requiring user action is provided. This involves detection of a present traffic situation, a check whether the traffic situation fulfills a first criterion, and a blocking of a functionality which offers to a driver during the autonomous driving mode a secondary activity not related to driving the vehicle if the first criterion is fulfilled. A device for the automatic operation of a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode not requiring user action includes devices designed for carrying out the method for the automatic operation of a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode not requiring user action.

Abstract: A method for the automatic operation of a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode not requiring user action is provided. This involves detection of a present traffic situation, a check whether the traffic situation fulfils a first criterion, and a blocking of a functionality which offers to a driver during the autonomous driving mode a secondary activity not related to driving the vehicle if the first criterion is fulfilled. A device for the automatic operation of a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode not requiring user action includes devices designed for carrying out the method for the automatic operation of a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode not requiring user action.

Abstract: A control system for coupling two final control elements as regards the actuated position and the actuating force, in which each final control element is assigned a separate force-control loop, these loops being coupled to one another by way of the actual-force values prevailing at the final control elements, is to be improved as regards its versatility for different applications. According to the invention, this is achieved by virtue of the fact that the two force-control loops are coupled by a proportionality factor, thus giving a force transmission ratio between the final control elements. The control system according to the invention can be used with particular advantage in a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle, in which case one final control element is formed by a steering handle and the other final control element is formed by steered vehicle wheels.

Abstract: The driver is able to predefine the desired value for the transverse dynamic behavior of the vehicle on the two or more two actuating parts. The desired value is determined as a function of the operating force applied by the driver to the actuating parts. The desired value for the transverse dynamic behavior is adjusted via actuating members. The current value for the transverse dynamic behavior which is produced by the actuating members is determined. The current value is assigned a desired deflection of the actuating parts from the rest position, and the determined desired deflection of the actuating part is adjusted on each actuating part via an actuating part control device assigned thereto.

Abstract: An arrangement controls the steering angle of a motor vehicle and the like which contains a user-controllable operating element and a vehicle longitudinal speed sensor system. A steering angle adjusting device is coupled with the longitudinal speed sensor system and the operating element such that the desired steering angle value is indicated as a function of the control force exercised on the operating element and the sensed longitudinal speed of the vehicle. Control element deflection devices deflect the operating element corresponding to the respective existing actual steering angle value.

Abstract: An operating element arrangement and method controls the longitudinal and transverse movements of a motor vehicle by using a manually actuatable regulating element which is stationary in the vehicle longitudinal direction and controls the longitudinal movement of the vehicle as a function of the actuating force exerted on the regulating element in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The regulating element also serves to control the vehicle transverse movement of the vehicle. For this purpose, the regulating element is arranged movably in the vehicle transverse direction of the vehicle. The transverse movement of the vehicle is controlled as a function of the transverse deflection of the regulating element or as a function of the actuating force exerted in the transverse direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A system for controlling or regulating the longitudinal speed of a motor vehicle includes an operating element for defining a desired longitudinal acceleration value as a function of a pertaining operating element actuating quantity. In a first embodiment of the invention, the system sets the longitudinal speed of the vehicle to the desired value adjusted by way of the operating element if the amount of this value is above a definable threshold value. Otherwise it sets a constant longitudinal speed which is lower than the actual vehicle speed at the moment when the set desired longitudinal acceleration value falls below the threshold value, by a differential value defined as a function of the speed. In a second embodiment which is preferably combined with the first embodiment, the adjusting sensitivity of the desired longitudinal acceleration value decreases with increasing longitudinal speed.