Road safety warning system and method
First Claim
1. An in-vehicle system for tracking events that occur at specific locations of a transportation route and alerting a driver of an impending significant event, the system including:
- a location determination unit for determining an instantaneous location of the vehicle, an event determination unit coupled to the location determination unit and responsive to the instantaneous location of the vehicle for communicating with an events database for obtaining an impending event that the vehicle is about to confront based on said instantaneous location, a decision module coupled to the event determination unit and responsive to current parameters of the vehicle for determining whether the current parameters of the vehicle are conducive to safe driving based on said impending event, and a warning unit coupled to the decision module and responsive to at least one current parameter of the vehicle not being conducive to safe driving based on said impending event for alerting the driver of the impending event.
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Abstract
An in-vehicle system for tracking events that occur at specific locations of a transportation route and alerting a driver of an impending significant event includes a location determination unit for determining an instantaneous location of the vehicle, and an event determination unit coupled to the location determination unit and responsive to the instantaneous location of the vehicle for communicating with an events database for obtaining an impending traffic sign that the vehicle is about to confront based on the vehicle'"'"'s instantaneous location. A decision module coupled to the event determination unit is responsive to current parameters of the vehicle for determining whether the current parameters of the vehicle are conducive to safe driving based on the impending event, and a warning unit coupled to the decision module is responsive to at least one current parameter of the vehicle not being conducive to safe driving for alerting the driver of the impending event.
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27 Claims
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1. An in-vehicle system for tracking events that occur at specific locations of a transportation route and alerting a driver of an impending significant event, the system including:
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a location determination unit for determining an instantaneous location of the vehicle, an event determination unit coupled to the location determination unit and responsive to the instantaneous location of the vehicle for communicating with an events database for obtaining an impending event that the vehicle is about to confront based on said instantaneous location, a decision module coupled to the event determination unit and responsive to current parameters of the vehicle for determining whether the current parameters of the vehicle are conducive to safe driving based on said impending event, and a warning unit coupled to the decision module and responsive to at least one current parameter of the vehicle not being conducive to safe driving based on said impending event for alerting the driver of the impending event. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method for alerting a driver of an impending significant event that occurs at a specific location of a transportation route, the method including:
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determining an instantaneous location of the vehicle;
accessing an events database for obtaining an impending event that the vehicle is about to confront based on said instantaneous location;
determining whether the current parameters of the vehicle are conducive to safe driving based on said impending event; and
if at least one current parameter of the vehicle is not conducive to safe driving based on said impending event, alerting the driver of the impending event. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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