A
system for providing vehicle environment awareness, comprising: two mm-
wave radar sensor modules, each having a 180-degree operating field, the operating field defined by a 6 dB drop in the
antenna radiation pattern, having identical hardware components and the same respective hardware arrangement within said mm-wave sensor modules, and having access to a display portion via the vehicle's communications network, the display portion positioned in the driver's
field of view; wherein each of said mm-
wave radar sensor modules is positioned at the rear corners of the vehicle, the rear side of the vehicle being defined as opposite the main direction of travel; wherein the
radiation pattern in the elevation plane of said mm-
wave radar sensor modules has a maximum
radiation in the horizontal
plane parallel to the
ground plane;wherein the
radiation pattern in the
azimuth plane of said mm-wave
radar sensor modules has a maximum radiation in the plane perpendicular to the back surfaces of said mm-wave
radar sensor modules; wherein the back surface of said mm-wave
radar sensor forms an angle greater than 60 degrees with the back surface of said mm-wave radar sensor module; wherein at least one of said mm-wave radar sensor modules has digital
processing hardware functionality that performs classification of objects detected by said mm-wave radar sensor modules using radar sensor
point cloud data previously generated by another functionality within said mm-wave radar sensor modules;wherein at least one of said mm-wave radar sensor modules transmits classification information about said objects around the vehicle, the object distances to the vehicle, the relative object positions to the vehicle, and the relative speed of the vehicles; the basic classification categories being: passenger vehicles, large commercial vehicles with a length not exceeding 10 meters, and motorcycles; wherein classification information is physically transmitted from at least one of said mm-wave radar sensor modules via a 4-pin connector;wherein said display part positioned in the driver's
field of view uses said classification information and displays dynamic positions of said objects, the objects being represented by artificial images related to said basic classification categories, the total view coverage in the
azimuth plane being greater than 300 degrees;