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Pre-crash assessment of crash severity for road vehicles

  • US 20030139867A1
  • Filed: 01/31/2003
  • Published: 07/24/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of predicting the severity of an imminent collision of two vehicles which are closing on each other, said method comprising the steps of:

  • determining that a collision of the vehicles is imminent, exchanging vehicle crash-related information between the vehicles when an imminent collision is determined, said crash-related information including vehicle crash information including vehicle crash characteristics information, computing crash-defining information onboard each vehicle based upon the crash-related information exchanged between the vehicles, and predicting onboard each vehicle the severity of the imminent collision based upon the computed crash-defining information whereby occupant protection devices of the vehicles may be deployed in accordance with the predicted severity.

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