Method and control unit for braking a vehicle

A method and a control unit for a vehicle arranged for transporting one or more passengers are presented. The vehicle includes at least one communication device arranged for communication with at least one entity external to the vehicle. The method includes:- determining, based on information provided by the at least one communication device, a time period tchange until a color change of a traffic light;- determining a vehicle speed v;- determining a distance d to a stop position pstop at the traffic light;- determining a deceleration sensibility Dsense of the one or more passengers;- determining, based on tchange, v, d and Dsense, braking features for achieving a vehicle standstill at the stop position pstop including one or more of an initiation point in time tbrake and a rate Drate of the deceleration; and- performing at least one action usage of the determined braking features.