Yielding system for emergency vehicles and control method therefor
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorChang Ho Cho
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Abstract
A method for controlling a subject vehicle includes detecting an emergency vehicle located around the subject vehicle while the subject vehicle waiting for a traffic signal inside a stop line at an intersection, determining, based on a location of the emergency vehicle, that the subject vehicle needs to yield way to the emergency vehicle, checking a signal system through moving patterns of preceding vehicles, collecting lane entry routes of vehicles, determining a free zone outside the stop line by analyzing the entry routes of vehicles, and causing the subject vehicle to travel to the determined free zone.
Claims10
A method for controlling a subject vehicle, comprising:
- detecting, by a sensor, an emergency vehicle following the subject vehicle while the subject vehicle waiting for a traffic signal before a stop line of a first road at an intersection where the first road and a second road intersect each other;
- determining, by the sensor and based on a location of the emergency vehicle, that the subject vehicle needs to yield way to the emergency vehicle;
- checking, by the sensor, a signal system through moving patterns of preceding vehicles crossing the intersection;
- collecting, by the sensor, lane entry routes of vehicles crossing the intersection;
- determining, by a controller, a free zone disposed inside the intersection, by analyzing the entry routes of vehicles, wherein the free zone is an area disposed inside the intersection and not interfering with driving of vehicles crossing the intersection;
- asking, by the controller, for consent from a user who is riding in the subject vehicle whether to allow the subject vehicle to drive the free zone;
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- upon the user's consent, causing, by the controller, the subject vehicle to autonomously pass the stop line to stop at the determined free zone, so as to allow the emergency vehicle to pass and not to interfere with vehicles crossing the intersection.
A yielding system for controlling a subject vehicle, comprising:
- a sensor provided in the subject vehicle and configured to, while the subject vehicle waiting for a traffic signal before a stop line of a first road at an intersection where the first road and a second road intersect each other, detect an emergency vehicle following the subject vehicle, to check a signal system through moving patterns of preceding vehicles, and to collect entry routes of vehicles crossing the intersection;
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- a controller configured to determine a free zone disposed inside the intersection, by analyzing the entry routes of vehicles crossing the intersection, to ask for consent from a user who is riding in the subject vehicle whether to allow the subject vehicle to drive the free zone, and upon the user's consent, to cause the subject vehicle to autonomously pass the stop line to stop at the determined free zone without passing the intersection so as to allow the emergency vehicle to pass and not to interfere with vehicles crossing the intersection,
- wherein the free zone is a space disposed inside the intersection and not interfering with driving of vehicles crossing the intersection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.