Automobile safety light system and methods of use
OwnerMasoodul Hasan Makhdoominventor
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Abstract
A vehicle safety system comprising a series of lights. One set of lights in a prominent turn indicator device indicates to the driver in a more prominent way whether the driver has indicated a turn. The turn indicator lights are either heads-up on a windshield, visible to the driver atop the dashboard or on an interior vehicle pillar, and away from vehicle instrument clusters. Another set of lights on a seatbelt compliance light device indicate to motorists external to the vehicle whether one or more occupants of a vehicle is in seatbelt. Each light system can be used to improve both the safety of the driver, pedestrians, surrounding vehicles, and vehicle occupants.
Claims20
A system for prominently displaying a status of an at least one seatbelt use to an external observer of a vehicle and a status of a turn signal indication to a driver of the vehicle while in the vehicle comprising:
- a plurality of vehicle seats, each having an occupancy sensor and a seatbelt proximate to each of said plurality of vehicle seats, the seatbelt having a detector capable of determining whether the seatbelt is latched;
- a turn signal switch capable of illuminating a prominent turn indicator light;
- the prominent turn indicator light installed in a location within view of the driver;
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- a seatbelt compliance light, wherein an illumination of said seatbelt compliance light indicates to said external observer whether each of said plurality of vehicle seats having said occupancy sensor activated simultaneously has said detector of said seatbelt in a latched state;
- wherein the prominent turn indicator light illuminates at a greater intensity after the turn signal switch was activated for a period greater than five seconds.
A method of increasing a visibility of an indication of a turn to a driver of a vehicle and displaying whether seatbelt compliance is occurring within a vehicle to an observer of the vehicle, the vehicle comprising at least a plurality of vehicle seats, each having an occupancy sensor and a seatbelt proximate to each of said plurality of vehicle seats, the seatbelt having a detector capable of determining whether the seatbelt is latched and a turn signal switch, the method comprising:
- providing a safety light system, the safety light system comprising at least a prominent turn indicator light and a seatbelt compliance light;
- installing the prominent turn indicator light in a location within view of the driver;
- installing the seatbelt compliance light, wherein an illumination of said seatbelt compliance light indicates to said external observer whether each of said plurality of vehicle seats having said occupancy sensor activated simultaneously has said detector of said seatbelt in a latched state;
- the driver observing whether an errant signal is indicated on the prominent turn indicator light;
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- the observer observing whether a seatbelt compliance is maintained within the vehicle;
- wherein the prominent turn indicator light is configured to illuminate at a greater intensity after the turn signal switch was activated for a period greater than five seconds.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.