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Method and apparatus for determining traffic safety events using vehicular participative sensing systems

  • US 9,430,944 B2
  • Filed: 11/12/2014
  • Issued: 08/30/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for identifying hazardous driving conditions using vehicular participative sensing systems, said method comprising:

  • providing data about traffic safety events by a plurality of participative sensing system vehicles;

    collecting, on a server computer including a processor and memory, the data about the traffic safety events from the participative sensing system vehicles;

    analyzing the data about the traffic safety events, by the server computer, to identify hazardous conditions, including aggregating the data, filtering the data, applying a time-decay to the data and purging the data;

    issuing advisories about the hazardous conditions from the server computer to advisory-receiving vehicles and other entities, where the advisories include a type of the hazardous condition and a location of the hazardous condition; and

    notifying drivers of the advisory-receiving vehicles of the hazardous conditions described in the advisories.

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