Specific signalling system to warn road users of the imminent opening of vehicle doors

A signalling system for a vehicle with safety belts and exterior rear-view mirrors on driver and passenger sides thereof to warn road users of an imminent opening of a driver or passenger side door of the vehicle before such opening occurs, the system comprising:

• a set of a plurality of powerful warning lights installed around a perimeter of each of the exterior rear-view mirrors of the vehicle on a mirror side of the exterior rear-view mirrors, the sets of powerful warning lights being oriented to emit light horizontally in the direction of the road users, and not downwardly or towards the ground, and therefore seen by the road users spaced from the vehicle in the horizontal direction;
• a plurality of presence sensors that are connected to the sets of powerful warning lights and are installed in interior handles of each of the doors, each presence sensor of the plurality of presence sensors being configured to detect a hand of an occupant of the vehicle before the hand touches an interior handle of the interior handles, and thereby before operation of the respective interior handle by the hand of the occupant to open the door associated with the interior handle and leave the vehicle;
• and
• a plurality of safety belt anchorage sensors connected to the plurality of presence sensors and the sets of powerful warning lights configured to detect unfastening of the safety belts,
• wherein the system is always active in the vehicle, and is configured such that when a first presence sensor, on a driver or passenger side, detects an approaching first hand of an occupant, and a first safety belt anchorage sensor associated with a safety belt on the same driver or passenger side as the first presence sensor detects that the safety belt becomes unfastened, the set of powerful warning lights associated with the exterior rear-view mirror on the same driver or passenger side of the vehicle as the first presence sensor that detected the first approaching hand is activated in a flashing mode to provide the warning to the road users of the imminent opening of a door of the vehicle on the respective driver or passenger side of the vehicle, and the set of powerful warning lights associated with the exterior rear-view mirror on the opposite driver or passenger side of the vehicle remain inactivated until a second presence sensor associated with said opposite driver or passenger side of the vehicle separately detects an approaching second hand and a second safety belt anchorage sensor associated with a safety belt on the opposite driver or passenger side detects that the safety belt becomes unfastened,
• wherein the sets of powerful warning lights only operate as door opening waring lights and are unassociated with any other signalling or indicator light of the vehicle, and
• wherein when the sets of powerful warning lights are activated, the sets of powerful warning lights emit at high luminosity and distinguishable by the road users at a distance in the horizontal direction equal to or greater than that of the other signalling or indicator lights of the vehicle.