System and method for automatically activating turn indicators in a vehicle

A system for automatically activating turn indicators of a motor vehicle, comprising:

• an external sensor configured to detect an environment external to the motor vehicle;
• an internal sensor configured to detect a state of a driver operating the motor vehicle;
• and
• a hardware processor configured to:
• collect, for a predetermined period of time, from the internal and external sensors of the motor vehicle, information associated with a plurality of driving maneuvers performed by the driver of the motor vehicle, the collected information includes at least one of information about driver's behavior, vehicle condition, road condition or traffic condition;
• feed the collected information into a neural network that selects, from a plurality of rules that determine whether a turn indicator should be activated, a rule that corresponds to the collected information, wherein each respective rule from the plurality of rules is associated with a respective weight used for determining automatic activation of the turn indicator;
• and
• in response to determining that the rule indicates that the turn indicator should be activated and that the driver completed a turn maneuver without activating the turn indicator:
• (1) increase a weight associated with the rule;
• and
• (2) prior to a subsequent turn maneuver for which the rule is again selected by neural network, automatically activate the turn indicator of the motor vehicle based on the increased weight.

A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions for automatically activating turn indicators of a motor vehicle, including instructions for:

• collecting, for a predetermined period of time, from a plurality of internal and external sensors of the motor vehicle, information associated with a plurality of driving maneuvers performed by a driver of the motor vehicle, the collected information includes at least one of information about driver's behavior, vehicle condition, road condition or traffic condition;
• feeding the collected information into a neural network that selects, from a plurality of rules that determine whether a turn indicators should be activated, a rule that corresponds to the collected information, wherein each respective rule from the plurality of rules is associated with a respective weight used for determining automatic activation of the turn indicator;
• and
• in response to determining that the rule indicates that the turn indicator should be activated and that the driver completed a turn maneuver without activating the turn indicator:
• (1) increasing a weight associated with the rule;
• and
• (2) prior to a subsequent turn maneuver for which the rule is again selected by neural network, automatically activating the turn indicator of the motor vehicle based on the increased weight.