Warning system
AssigneeBinar Aktiebolag
InventorLeif Gustavsson
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a warning system mounted on a vehicle comprising detection means for detecting an object, and signalling means connected to said detection means, wherein said detection means are arranged to remotely detect an object in the vicinity of the vehicle and that said detection means is connected to said signalling means to automatically emit a signal that is detectable from at least one other side of the vehicle than the one where said object is present, and wherein said detection means (4) are arranged to avoid detecting objects lower than 0.5 m, preferably lower than 0.25 m from the ground.
Claims24
A warning system mounted on a vehicle comprising:
- detection means for detecting an object on a first side of a vehicle;
- and
- signalling means connected to said detection means, wherein said detection means is arranged such that when the object is detected in the vicinity of the first side of the vehicle said signalling means emits a signal that is detectable from at least one other side of the vehicle than the first side, and wherein said detection means is arranged to avoid detecting objects lower than 0.5 m from the ground.
A method of providing a warning to moving vehicles and/or pedestrians in the vicinity a slow moving or stopped vehicle comprising the steps of:
- detecting an object on a first side of a first vehicle, wherein objects lower than 0.5 m from the ground are not detected on the first side of the first vehicle;
- and
- providing a warning signal to a second vehicle that is moving and/or to a pedestrian in a vicinity of the first vehicle that is detectable from at least one other side of the first vehicle than the first side, the warning signaling that the object is present on the first side of the first vehicle, wherein the warning signal is only provided when the first vehicle is stopped or is moving below 5 km/h.
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