Granted Patent B2

US 12,594,933 · App. 18/547,973 · Granted Apr 7, 2026

Inventors: Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, DE); Tobias Schwalb (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE); Marcus Liebhardt (Waiblingen, DE); Wolfgang Kob (Waiblingen, DE)

Assignee: Daimler Truck AG

B60W30/09B60W30/0956B60W30/146B60W30/182B60W60/0018G08G1/164G08G1/166B60W2556/45

Abstract

Claims (12)

1 . A method for safeguarding a self-driving, damaged vehicle, comprising the steps of:

detecting, by the damaged vehicle, that the damaged vehicle has been damaged;

sending damage information from the damaged vehicle to a first central computing unit that remotely operates the damaged vehicle;

sending the damage information from the first central computing unit to a superior authority;

informing a second central computing unit that remotely operates an undamaged vehicle but not the damaged vehicle about the damaged vehicle by the superior authority; and

putting the undamaged vehicle into a safeguarding mode by the second central computing unit when the undamaged vehicle is moving towards the damaged vehicle.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein, in the safeguarding mode, depending on a situation caused by the damaged vehicle, a current driving speed of the further vehicle is reduced and a hazard warning light is switched on.

3 . A device, comprising:

a damaged vehicle configured to: independently detect that the damaged vehicle has been damaged, and send damage information to a first central computing unit that operates the damaged vehicle; and

a central computing unit configured to:

send the damage information to a superior authority configured to inform a second central computing unit that remotely operates an undamaged vehicle located near the vehicle about the damaged vehicle, and

put the undamaged vehicle into a safeguarding mode when the undamaged vehicle is moving towards the damaged vehicle.

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