Method and Apparatus for Determining Traffic Conditions
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsHsin-Hsiang Yang, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Fling Tseng, Gary Steven Strumolo
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Abstract
A system includes a vehicle processor configured to detect one or more brake presses. The processor is also configured to detect one or more accelerator presses. Further, the processor is configured to add values related to the brake presses and accelerator presses to aggregate an index value based on detected brake and acceleration presses. The processor is additionally configured to enact a safety and convenience related measure based on the index value passing at least a first predetermined threshold.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a vehicle processor configured to:
- detect one or more brake presses;
- detect one or more accelerator presses;
- add values related to the brake presses and accelerator presses to aggregate an index value based on detected brake and acceleration presses;
- and
- enact a safety or convenience related measure based on the index value passing at least a first predetermined threshold.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- detecting one or more brake presses;
- detecting one or more accelerator presses;
- adding values related to the brake presses and accelerator presses to aggregate an index value based on detected brake and acceleration presses;
- and
- enacting a safety or convenience related measure based on the index value passing at least a first predetermined threshold.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
- detecting one or more brake presses;
- detecting one or more accelerator presses;
- adding values related to the brake presses and accelerator presses to aggregate an index value based on detected brake and acceleration presses;
- and
- enacting a safety or convenience related measure based on the index value passing at least a first predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.