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Speed-Monitoring Radar-Activated Brake Light

  • US 20070100552A1
  • Filed: 12/13/2006
  • Published: 05/03/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. Apparatus for alerting the operator of a vehicle trailing a host vehicle of a potentially hazardous reduction in traffic speed by a vehicle forward of the host vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

  • a host vehicle;

    means, carried by the host vehicle, for determining a significant deceleration of a forward vehicle; and

    a luminous display operably coupled to the determining means and activated whenever said significant deceleration of a forward vehicle is determined, the luminous display carried by the host vehicle and being sufficiently bright and strategically positioned to be visible by an operator of a trailing vehicle.

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