System for evaluating the traffic environment of a motor vehicle and for
influencing the speed of the motor vehicle in its own traffic lane,
comprising an electronic control unit, which is connected to a signal
transmitter that produces a signal characteristic of the desired speed of
the motor vehicle, a signal transmitter that produces a signal
characteristic of the yaw of the motor vehicle about its vertical axis, a
signal transmitter that produces a signal, which is characteristic of the
articles situated, in the direction of travel of the motor vehicle, in
front of the motor vehicle in terms of their spacing and orientation
relative to the motor vehicle and which is the speed relative to the
speed of the system motor vehicle and/or the spacing relative to the
system motor vehicle and/or the angular offset or the cross track
distance relative to the vehicle longitudinal axis of the system motor
vehicle, and a signal transmitter that produces a signal characteristic
of the speed of at least one wheel of the motor vehicle, and which is
connected to at least one control device, which influences the
performance of the motor vehicle, for supplying said device with output
signals derived from the performance of the motor vehicle situated in
front of the system motor vehicle, in which in the electronic control
unit the behavior of the other articles moving in the space in front of
the system motor vehicle is evaluated in order to infer therefrom how
many traffic lanes the road has and along which of said traffic lanes the
system motor vehicle is moving.