Method and apparatus for warning of the wrong-way travel of a vehicle after an accident and/or a safety-critical driving situation, especially after an interim standstill of the vehicle
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1. A method comprising:
- detecting, by a vehicle, occurrence of an accident or an emergency event that adversely affects a driver of the vehicle to drive the vehicle;
detecting that a direction of travel of the vehicle has changed from a first travel direction before the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event to a second travel direction after the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event, wherein a possible cause for the travel of the vehicle in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction is determined to be a loss of orientation of the driver of the vehicle due to the accident or emergency event; and
responsive to the determination, which is based on a combination of the detection of the occurrence of the accident or emergency event and the detection of the change of the direction of travel, triggering output of a warning of wrong-way travel by the vehicle indicating to the driver that the vehicle is traveling in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction, wherein the warning of wrong-way travel is output when the second travel direction is out of a tolerance range deviation from the first travel direction.
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Abstract
A method for warning of the wrong-way travel of a vehicle after an accident and/or a safety-critical driving situation, especially after an interim standstill of the vehicle, the method including a detecting task, in which a change in a direction of travel of the vehicle after an accident is detected. Finally, the method includes a task of providing a warning signal, the warning signal being provided as a function of a detected change in the direction of travel of the vehicle, to output the warning of the wrong-way travel of the vehicle after the accident and/or the safety-critical driving situation.
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1. A method comprising:
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detecting, by a vehicle, occurrence of an accident or an emergency event that adversely affects a driver of the vehicle to drive the vehicle; detecting that a direction of travel of the vehicle has changed from a first travel direction before the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event to a second travel direction after the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event, wherein a possible cause for the travel of the vehicle in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction is determined to be a loss of orientation of the driver of the vehicle due to the accident or emergency event; and responsive to the determination, which is based on a combination of the detection of the occurrence of the accident or emergency event and the detection of the change of the direction of travel, triggering output of a warning of wrong-way travel by the vehicle indicating to the driver that the vehicle is traveling in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction, wherein the warning of wrong-way travel is output when the second travel direction is out of a tolerance range deviation from the first travel direction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:
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a sensor arrangement; and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to; detect, based on output of the sensor arrangement, (a) occurrence of an accident or an emergency event that adversely affects a driver of the vehicle to drive the vehicle and (b) that a direction of travel of the vehicle has changed from a first travel direction before the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event to a second travel direction after the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event, wherein a possible cause for the travel of the vehicle in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction is determined to be a loss of orientation of the driver of the vehicle due to the accident or emergency event; and responsive to the determination, which is based on a combination of the detection of the occurrence of the accident or emergency event and the detection of the change of the direction of travel, trigger output of a warning of wrong-way travel by the vehicle indicating to the driver that the vehicle is traveling in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction, wherein the warning of wrong-way travel is output when the second travel direction is out of a tolerance range deviation from the first travel direction. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. A non-transitory computer readable medium on which are stored instructions that are executable by a processor of a vehicle and that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
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detecting occurrence of an accident or an emergency event that adversely affects a driver of the vehicle to drive the vehicle; detecting that a direction of travel of the vehicle has changed from a first travel direction before the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event to a second travel direction after the detected occurrence of the accident or emergency event, wherein a possible cause for the travel of the vehicle in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction is determined to be a loss of orientation of the driver of the vehicle due to the accident or emergency event; and responsive to the determination, which is based on a combination of the detection of the occurrence of the accident or emergency event and the detection of the change of the direction of travel, triggering output of a warning of wrong-way travel by the vehicle indicating to the driver that the vehicle is traveling in the second travel direction instead of the first travel direction, wherein the warning of wrong-way travel is output when the second travel direction is out of a tolerance range deviation from the first travel direction. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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