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AssigneeVolvo Car Corporation
InventorsSaurabh Gawande, Srikar Muppirisetty, Sohini Roy Chowdhury, Minming Zhao
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Vehicle alert and control systems and methods taking into account a detected road friction at a following vehicle and a predicted road friction by the following vehicle. The detected road friction between the following vehicle tires and the road surface may be assessed using a variety of methodologies and is used to compute a critical safety distance between the following vehicle and the preceding vehicle and a critical safety speed of the following vehicle. The predicted road friction ahead of the following vehicle may also be assessed using a variety of methodologies (lidar, camera, and cloud-based examples are provided) and is used to compute a warning safety distance between the following vehicle and the preceding vehicle and a warning safety speed of the following vehicle. These functionalities may be applied to vehicle/stationary object warning and response scenarios as well.
A system for determining and utilizing vehicle safety distance and speed information, comprising:
A method for determining and utilizing vehicle safety distance and speed information, comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored in a memory and executed by a processor for determining and utilizing vehicle safety distance and speed information, the instructions, when executed, performing the steps comprising:
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