878results about How to "Improve traffic safety" patented technology

A traffic informational system provides information to traffic moving along a road and may include a plurality of traffic information devices mountable to the road, each having an integral power producing source, at least a first set of illumination sources, and a wireless communications subsystem. The traffic informational system may further include at least a first external control device comprising at least one antenna and a transmitter communication wirelessly with the traffic information devices and/or with one another. The traffic information device may communicate with one another, and may include sensor for sensing ambient conditions. The system employs various approaches to reducing power consumption and improving communications, and is suitable for a wide range of applications, including use in remote environments.

The invention provides a driving safety early-warning system for a vehicle at a blind zone crossing. The system comprises a roadside unit and a vehicle-mounted unit. The roadside unit is installed on a transverse bar of a roadside stand column and comprises a camera, a calculating and processing module and a wireless communication module I. The vehicle-mounted unit is installed inside the vehicle and comprises a locating module, a calculating unit, a warning module and a wireless communication module II. The invention further provides a driving safety early-warning method for the vehicle at the blind zone crossing. The calculating and processing module in the roadside unit carries out recognition and classification on the vehicle on a preset road through the camera, obtains the speed, the direction and position coordinates of the vehicle and obtains event information of the blind zone crossing through encoding, and then the event information of the blind zone crossing is broadcast through the wireless communication module I. The vehicle-mounted unit receives the event information of the blind zone crossing through the wireless communication module II and judges the driving safety status of the vehicle in combination with locating and movement status information of the vehicle-mounted unit, and the judgment result is transmitted to the warning module to remind or give an early warning to a driver in sound and graph modes.

The invention requests to protect a multifunctional V2X intelligent roadside base station system. The system comprises roadside sensing equipment, an MEC server, a high-precision positioning service module, a multi-source intelligent roadside sensing information fusion module and a 5G/LTE-V communication module. An intelligent roadside device integrating C-V2X communication, environmental perception and target recognition, high-precision positioning and the like is designed, and the problem that multi-device information fusion and integration are inconvenient in intelligent transportation is solved. In the system, a C-V2X intelligent road side system architecture and a target layer multi-source information fusion method are designed. Road side multi-source environment cooperative sensing is combined, real-time traffic scheduling of the intersection is realized by using a traffic scheduling module in the MEC server, and communication and high-precision positioning services are providedfor vehicle driving, and finally the target information after fusion processing is broadcasted to other vehicles or pedestrians through a C-V2X RSU (LTE-V2X/5G V2X and the like) according to an application layer standard data format, so the driving and traffic safety is improved.

The invention discloses a system and method for calculating driving risks and assisting automobile insurance pricing based on multi-source data. The system includes an intelligent mobile internet terminal and a remote server connected with each other; a plurality of data sensing acquisition units and applications are installed in the intelligent mobile terminal; and the remote server is provided with a risk model algorithm system and includes a scene driving risk analysis sub module, a distracted driving model recognition sub module, a user travel behavior analysis sub module and a driving behavior evaluation and grading system sub module. According to the system and method of the invention, data acquired by the intelligent mobile internet terminal and road traffic information acquired by the remote server are analyzed, and the scores of the sub modules are calculated, and automobile insurance pricing is carried out according to the scores. With the system and method of the invention adopted, based on multi-source data acquisition and fusion, the driving behaviors of users are analyzed, and the travel habits, driving habits and driving risks of the drivers can be effectively calibrated, and therefore, theoretical basis and technical support can be provided for driving behavior-based automobile insurance pricing models.

Information system in a vehicle, having a plurality of information sources for outputting respectively associated information. The information which is to be output is generated and/or filtered as a function of the state of the driver and/or of the behavior of the driver. The state of the driver and/or of the behavior of the driver is determined by of data from one or more driving systems of the vehicle and/or one or more comfort systems of the vehicle. At least one of the information sources generates the information which is to be output with a frequency which depends on the state of the driver and/or the behavior of the driver.

A speed controller for motor vehicles is provided, the vehicle having a distance regulating function, a locating system for detecting locating data for objects that are in front of the vehicle, and an evaluation device for determining whether a located object needs to be treated as a relevant target object in the vehicle's lane. The speed controller includes a monitoring module that is designed to detect, by reference to the locating data, a situation in which objects not detected by the locating system are within close range and, in this situation, issue a takeover prompt to the driver.

The invention relates to a headrest (100) for a vehicle seat, comprising a fixed part (110) for attachment in a vehicle seat and at least a first moving part (115), which moving part (115) is movably mounted in amounting (120) in the fixed part so that it can be moved between a first and a second position relative to the fixed part (110). The movement of the moving part (115) from the said first position to the said second position is achieved by means of an inflatable element (130) in the headrest (100), which is inflated by compressed air and thus expands, and the first moving part (115) is maintained in the said second position by means of the inflated inflatable element (130).

An automotive vehicle wheel apparatus includes a turnable cover or door for a wheelhouse opening in a fender. In another aspect, a sheath or liner is provided close to at least half of a circumference of a wheel. A further aspect blocks and/or removes circumferential air moving with a wheel.

A car door opening early-warning system, which is adapted to a vehicle having a plurality of door locks and an electric module that is used to generate an actuation power, is provided. The early-warning system includes a plurality of interlocking devices and at least one warning device. The interlocking devices are disposed on the corresponding door locks, and are connected to the warning device and the electric module. The warning device is disposed on the vehicle, and when the door locks are unlocked, the interlocking devices are actuated to conduct the actuation power to the warning device, such that the warning device is actuated to send a warning signal.

The invention discloses a vehicle automatic-drive switching device and method based on distracted driving behavior distinguishing. The device comprises a detection unit and a control unit. The input end of the detection unit is connected with a speed sensor, a three-axis acceleration sensor, a steering wheel turning angle sensor, a steering wheel gripping force sensor, a touch sensor, a ranging sensor, a heart rate sensor, a vehicle data recorder and a GPS. The control unit receives significant variable data and time data of a timer, establishes the relation between vehicle automatic-drive probability dependent variables and distracted driving behavior index independent variables on the basis of a logistic regression model, and works out the vehicle automatic-drive probability. Whether given conditions are met or not is judged through a judging condition I and a judging condition II of a condition judging program, if the judging condition I is met, an automatic early-warning control switch is triggered, and if the judging condition II is met, a vehicle automatic-drive control switch is triggered.

The invention discloses an Internet of vehicles information system oriented to V2X network connection vehicles. The system comprises a vehicle terminal T-BOX, a mobile APP client side and a server background system; one mobile phone APP is bound with one vehicle terminal T-BOX; the vehicle terminal T-BOX is mounted on the vehicle through an OBD interface, the vehicle terminal T-BOX on each vehiclecan perform ad-hoc networking with the other vehicles in a communication range and perform communication through a V2X(802.11p) dedicated short-distance wireless communication mode; and the vehicle terminal T-BOX communicates with the server background system through a 4G/5G wireless mode. The Internet of vehicles information system provided by the invention is formed by combination with demandsof the present vehicle networking and vehicle security pre-warning and the disadvantages of the current single-vehicle communication.

A method and a device for warning the driver of a motor vehicle. An optical warning in the direction of at least one object of the vicinity of the vehicle is generated in the field of vision of the driver by a signaling device, the optical warning occurring at least prior to the object becoming visible to the driver. The optical warning is at least one patch of light and/or at least one warning symbol, where at least the display duration may be changed.

The invention provides a signal lamp state terminal display method and a system based on a cooperative vehicle infrastructure technology. The system comprises a traffic signal machine, a roadside module, a vehicle infrastructure communication module and a terminal device, wherein the traffic signal machine is used for generating signal lamp phase timing information and transmitting the information to the roadside module; the roadside module is used for publishing intersection position information, local MAP information and a real-time SPAT information; the vehicle infrastructure communication module is used for information data interaction between the terminal device and the roadside module; and the terminal device is used for acquiring, processing and displaying the vehicle motion state data and terminal information. The cooperative vehicle-infrastructure technology is used for realizing real-time displaying of the signal lamp state on the terminal device, a driver can conveniently judge the vehicle passing time and the queue time, the road traffic safety is enhanced, the road traffic pressure is reduced, influences from the environment, the vehicle and the driver do not exist, and the system use efficiency is high; and red lamp early warning or automatic control can also be realized, the intersection driving safety is ensured, and a behavior of running the red lamp to break the law can be avoided.

In a method for ascertaining a degree of attentiveness of a vehicle driver during travel with his vehicle, e.g., a motor vehicle, using a sensor of the vehicle, a direction of vision of the vehicle driver toward a region of a surrounding environment visible to the driver is recognized, and the region visible to the vehicle driver is assigned a probability distribution through which, on the basis of the recognized direction of vision of the vehicle driver, a degree of attentiveness of the vehicle driver is ascertained.

The invention discloses an expressway traffic capacity cooperative regulation and control method based on lane dynamic allocation of CAVs mixed traffic flow, wherein the method comprises the steps: setting a special lane for a networked automatic driving vehicle on an expressway under the condition that the networked automatic driving vehicle CAVs has certain market permeability, and through the constraint of multiple factors, establishing an integer nonlinear lane dynamic allocation model; and dynamically adjusting the distribution of lane rights and the driving data of the vehicle, outputting a change curve of the traffic capacity of the expressway, selecting an optimization solution, feeding back to a traffic control platform, and dynamically adjusting an expressway lane distribution scheme and vehicle driving data management and control in time to realize cooperative regulation and control of the traffic capacity of the expressway. According to the method, the CAVs special lane isreasonably arranged to separate the mixed traffic flow, and meanwhile, the influence of the road service level and a confluence area on the road is considered, so that the designed traffic capacity ofthe basic road section of the expressway meets the actual traffic requirements, and the purposes of improving the traffic efficiency and the traffic safety are achieved.

The invention provides a fleet formation control device and a formation control method based on an information physical network, wherein a fleet comprises navigation vehicles (Ri) and following vehicles (Rj); a fleet intelligent obstacle avoiding device arranged on each vehicle of the fleet comprises a vehicle external sensor module (1), a GPS positioning module (2), a wireless communication module (3) and a central processing unit module (4); the central processing unit module (4) used for realizing communication and application protocols receives speed and position information of the vehicle through the GPS positioning module (2) and processes the speed and position information; and when an infrared sensor (5) senses that an obstacle object exist in the front, the central processing unit module (4) obtains linear speeds and angular speeds of the navigation vehicles (Ri) and the following vehicles (Rj) by means of formula calculation, and the navigation vehicles (Ri) and the following vehicles (Rj) send the obtained linear speeds (vj) and angular speeds (wj) to a vehicle controller (7) through a CAN bus so as to ensure the fleet to advance in a formation manner.