A braking system for vehicles with collapsible actuation pedal may have an operating pedal operatively connected to a hydraulic pump having a delivery circuit fluidically connected to an accumulator device. The delivery circuit may have a hydraulic branch equipped with at least one normally closed control valve. The control valve may be connected to a control actuator which commands its opening when an impact or accident is detected by an appropriate detector or the control valve may be calibrated to open automatically when a limit pressure and/or flow rate value is reached in the hydraulic branch following the lowering of the actuation pedal.

An image processing apparatus includes one or more processors; and a memory, the memory storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate vertical direction distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of distance values with respect to a vertical direction of a range image, from the range image having distance values according to distance of a road surface in a plurality of captured images captured by a plurality of imaging parts; set a search range corresponding to a predetermined reference point in the vertical direction distribution data and extract a plurality of pixels from the search range; and detect a road surface, based on the plurality of extracted pixels.

A method for controlling operations of safety devices of a vehicle includes determining whether there is a possibility of a collision with a preceding vehicle on the basis of vehicle driving information, determining occupancy information of a passenger or a type of a passenger or determining whether a passenger has fastened a seat belt using vehicle sensor information, and determining whether to apply, and applying accordingly, full braking, a full braking profile, or an airbag deployment scheme according to the occupancy information of a passenger, the type of the passenger, or whether the passenger has fastened a seat belt when a possibility of a collision is determined, and fully retracting the passenger's seat belt before full braking is applied after partial braking is applied.

The disclosure relates to a collision determination device and a vehicle having the same. The collision determination device comprises a communicator configured communicate with a plurality of sensors, and a processor configured to identify a lateral collision force and a collision moment generated in a vehicle based on detection information of the plurality of sensors received through the communicator, and determine whether a collision of the vehicle occurs based on the lateral collision force and the collision moment.

A method for performing emergency braking in a vehicle includes registering at least one object in surroundings of the vehicle and ascertaining a probability of collision for the vehicle with the at least one registered object to detect an emergency braking situation, autonomously activating service brakes of the vehicle using a vehicle setpoint deceleration to perform emergency braking if an emergency braking situation has been detected, and adapting the vehicle setpoint deceleration during the autonomously performed emergency braking. Adapting the vehicle setpoint deceleration takes place in dependence on at least one driving dynamics parameter. The driving dynamics parameter characterizes a real reaction of the vehicle to the performed emergency braking. The driving dynamics parameter is ascertained during the emergency braking.

A dual direction accident prevention (DDAP) and assistive braking system (ABS) which detects both the risk of a frontal accident and a rear accident and then coordinates braking to prevent both if possible while giving priority to preventing a frontal accident. In the event of an imminent rear collision with an object or vehicle in front of a driver, the system will choose a braking force which minimizes the impact of the rear collision, while determining a safe approach toward the front obstacle. Furthermore, if a vehicle is approaching the driver and an accident is imminent, and there is no further room in front to reduce the effect of the imminent impact, the system prepares the vehicle and driver by bracing for impact by applying emergency brakes, tightening seatbelts, etc.

A braking control apparatus is configured to control braking force to be generated by a braking device of a vehicle. The braking control apparatus includes a contact detector and a braking control unit. The contact detector is configured to detect a contact of the vehicle. The braking control unit is configured to perform a post-crash braking control that generates the braking force in response to that the contact detector detects the contact and thereby decelerates the vehicle, and cancel the post-crash braking control in a case where an amount of operation of an accelerator operation device of the vehicle is increased and decreased in a predetermined pattern, in which the accelerator operation device is configured to receive an accelerator operation to be performed by a driver who drives the vehicle.

A method for activating an emergency braking function of a vehicle. At least one restraint unit is activated in the process for restraining at least one occupant of the vehicle in response to an identification of an imminent triggering of the emergency braking function, using at least one sensor signal of at least one sensor of the vehicle. The triggering of the emergency braking function takes place when the restraint unit is activated.

A method of operating a vehicle is provided. The method comprises by a control circuitry of the vehicle in combination with one or more sensors of the vehicle, that a vulnerable subject is travelling on a path which intersects with a path on which the vehicle is travelling, determining, by the control circuitry, that a collision between the vehicle and the vulnerable subject is likely, predicting, by the control circuitry, a force of the collision, selecting, by the control circuitry in accordance with the predicted force of the collision, one of a plurality of models each defining an operation of the vehicle in response to determining that the vehicle is unable to avoid the collision, wherein the selected model is selected on the basis that the control circuitry determines it to result in a least amount of injury for the vulnerable subject from among the plurality of models, and controlling, by the control circuitry, one or more functions of the vehicle in accordance with the selected model.

A method for triggering at least two safety functions from a predefined plurality of safety functions in a motor vehicle, including a) recognizing a trigger signal for one first safety function, and b) generating a trigger signal for at least one second safety function, if according to step a) the trigger signal for the first safety function has been recognized, the first safety function being of a first function type and at least one of the second safety functions being of a second function type differing from the first function type.