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US 2014/0005884 A1Published application
Systems and methods for disabling a vehicle horn
AssigneeHarman International Industries, Incorporated
InventorVallahba Vasant Hampiholi
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AssigneeHarman International Industries, Incorporated
InventorVallahba Vasant Hampiholi
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Various embodiments relate to controlling honking of a vehicle horn. A location of a vehicle and a location of one or more points along a route where a vehicle horn is disabled may be received at a vehicle computer. Based on a location of the vehicle and the location of the one or more vehicle horn disabling locations, a determination may be made that the vehicle is in the vicinity of the one or more vehicle horn disabling points. One or more instructions from the vehicle computer may be transmitted to disable the vehicle horn when in the vicinity of the one or more vehicle horn disabling locations. In some embodiments, if the vehicle is in a disabling location, overriding instructions for overriding the disabled horn may be transmitted or executed if an emergency event is detected.
A computer-implemented method for disabling a vehicle horn, the computer-implemented method comprising:
A system for disabling a horn at one or more horn disabling locations on a route, the system comprising:
A system for controlling honking of a vehicle horn in one or more vehicle horn disabling locations, the system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.