Motor vehicles with blind spot modeling

A motor vehicle, comprising:

• one or more sensors;
• a vehicle safety system comprising a processor and memory storing instructions executable by the processor, the processor further configured to:
• receive data for a target vehicle from the one or more sensors;
• build a computer model of the target vehicle using the received data, wherein the model includes at least one model mirror having a modeled position and a modeled orientation;
• detect a location and orientation of a head of a driver of the target vehicle;
• determine a blind spot zone for the target vehicle using geometric optics software or ray tracing software applied to the computer model of the target vehicle to identify, based on the modeled position and the modeled orientation of the at least one model mirror and based on the location and orientation of the head of the driver, points that are not visible to the driver in the at least one mirror;
• determine a position of the motor vehicle relative to the target vehicle and determine that the motor vehicle is in the blind spot zone of the target vehicle;
• and
• modify the operation of the motor vehicle to move the vehicle out of the blind spot of the target vehicle.

A method for a safety system of a motor vehicle, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a system comprising a processor and memory, data for a target vehicle from one or more sensors;
• building, by the system, a computer model of the target vehicle using the received data, wherein the model includes at least one model mirror having a modeled position and a modeled orientation;
• determining a blind spot zone for the target vehicle using geometric optics software or ray tracing software to identify, based on the modeled position and the modeled orientation of the at least one model mirror, points that are not visible in the at least one model mirror;
• determining a position of the motor vehicle relative to the target vehicle and determining that the motor vehicle is in the blind spot zone of the target vehicle;
• and
• modifying the operation of the motor vehicle to move the vehicle out of the blind spot of the target vehicle.