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Danger avoidance system for a vehicle

  • US 5,521,580 A
  • Filed: 02/28/1995
  • Issued: 05/28/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A danger avoidance system for a vehicle comprising:

  • a vehicle condition monitoring system for monitoring a behavior of the vehicle and for providing vehicle information;

    an ambient condition monitoring system for monitoring a condition of ambience surrounding the vehicle and for providing ambient information;

    a traveling condition deciding unit, receiving the vehicle information indicative of the behavior of the vehicle, and the ambient information indicative of the ambience of the vehicle, for deciding whether the vehicle is in a dangerous traveling mode based on the vehicle information and the ambient information, the traveling condition deciding unit having means for providing a first output if the vehicle is in the dangerous traveling mode;

    a danger recognition confirming unit, receiving the first output and driver information indicative of behavior of a driver of the vehicle, for deciding, in response to the first output, whether the driver is aware of the dangerous traveling mode, the danger recognition confirming unit having means for providing a second output if the driver is unaware of the dangerous traveling mode;

    a danger avoidance effecting unit, receiving the second output, for effecting warning actions to warn the driver of the dangerous traveling mode in response to the second output; and

    a vehicle condition data storage unit for storing data represented by output signals of the vehicle condition monitoring system for a predetermined time;

    wherein the ambient condition monitoring system includes means for inferring the condition of the ambience surrounding the vehicle from the data stored in the vehicle condition data storage unit and includes means for selectively determining a monitoring range of the ambient information to be monitored by the ambient condition monitoring system in response to the inferred condition of the ambience.

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