Abstract: A control system is designed and intended for use in a host motor vehicle and to detect a preceding vehicle in the surroundings of the host motor vehicle from surroundings data acquired by means of a surroundings sensor system of the host vehicle, to capture operating data of the host motor vehicle by means of a driving state sensor system of the host motor vehicle, and, in a recording mode, to capture and store operating data and/or surroundings data of the host motor vehicle, and, in a playback mode, to set an acceleration and/or a speed of the host motor vehicle depending on the operating data stored in the recording mode and/or the surroundings data stored in the recording mode, wherein the control system is designed and intended to interrupt the playback mode as soon as the time interval between the host motor vehicle and the preceding vehicle falls below a predefined time interval.

Abstract: A system and a method for use in an own motor vehicle to identify, on the basis of environmental data, motor vehicles driving in front, next to and/or behind an own motor vehicle and preferably objects standing in front, to provide the environmental data representing an area in front of, next to and/or behind the own motor vehicle, and which comprises: detecting another motor vehicle participating in traffic in front of the own motor vehicle as reference vehicle relative to the own motor vehicle both on a lane on which the own motor vehicle is also travelling and on a neighbouring lane with slower traffic than the own motor vehicle, starting out from a momentary location, determining the distance and the relative speed with respect to a vehicle driving in front in the slower neighbouring lane, receiving a signal of a driver's desire for a lane change or a request signal for a lane change or for a merging manoeuvre, determining whether a lane change is possible within predetermined limits from the distance