Lane course determination device for a motor vehicle cruise control, has means for measuring and calculating the course of a lane of a vehicle in front of the car for which a lane course is to be determined

摘要

Lane course determination device for determining lane curve data (70d) for the path of a lane in which a first vehicle (10) is traveling based on lane data (19) relating to a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle. The device has means (22) for measuring the forward vehicle lane data at a number of measurement positions and means (25) for describing the lane course of the forward vehicle based on this lane data. An independent claim is made for a method for determining vehicle lane data based on the lane data of a vehicle traveling in front of the vehicle for which the lane data is to be determined.