Method for driving a vehicle behind a vehicle in front

摘要

The invention relates to a method for driving a vehicle (4) behind a preceding vehicle (2). In order to reliably enable the rear vehicle (4) to follow the rear vehicle (4) even if there is no lane marking or other road features, it is proposed that the vehicle in front (2) record a guidance picture (20) from it, while driving Descriptors describing image parts are determined, the rear vehicle (4) takes a follow-up image (22) in a predetermined vicinity (N) of the location (26) of the lead image (20), descriptors determined from the follow-up image (22) with those from the lead image ( 20) and the rear vehicle (4) recognizes its own position relative to the position of the preceding vehicle (2) from the comparison and steers its journey in such a way that it drives in a predetermined manner relative to the preceding vehicle (2).