DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING SAME, AND MOTOR VEHICLE EQUIPPED WITH SAME

The invention relates to a driver assistance system for motor vehicles (1) for implementing such an assistance function which is related to the detection of obstacles that span the driving path of the motor vehicle (1). In this case, a sensor system detects detection information about obstacles in the detection area above the sensor system and an actuator system executes the assistance function depending on the detection information of the sensor system. The invention also relates to a method for operating such a driver assistance system. In order to improve the implementation of an assistance function which is related to the detection of obstacles that span the driving path of a motor vehicle (1), the invention provides that the sensor system illuminates its environment and, by means of a multichannel reception sensor (6) with multiple horizontally arranged reception channels of respective optoelectronic detectors, which each capture with their respective optical opening angle a part (12) of the entire field of view (7) of the reception sensor (6), receives light reflected at objects (5) and the detectors each provide reception information corresponding to the received backscatter. An evaluation unit determines three-dimensional information from the reception information of the detectors and provides this to the actuator system.