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AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsJeffrey Thomas Remillard, John Shutko, Cynthia M Neubecker
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Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for provide monitoring a vehicle's surroundings, predicting when a navigation route will pass through a closed road, preemptively modifying the navigation route to avoid the closed road, identifying changes in speed limit, and identifying dangerous debris in the roadway. One embodiment of the camera-based vehicle control system includes a camera configured to obtain image information and a processor configured to: analyze the image information; if a reroute condition is satisfied based on the image information, implement an alternate navigation route; if a threat condition is satisfied based on the image information, cause an output device to output a threat alert; and if a speed condition is satisfied based on the image information, modify a vehicle speed setting.
A control system for a vehicle, comprising:
A control method, for a vehicle, comprising, via processor(s) that received captured image(s) from vehicle camera(s):
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