Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshihiro Utsui

Mitsuo Shimotani

Noriyuki Inoue

Minoru Nishida

Kazuma Kaneko

Norihiro Tamiya

Yoshiharu Morihiro

Shouichi Washino

Yuichi Fudewaki

The present invention relates to a danger avoidance system capable of avoiding the collision of a vehicle against obstacles and of reducing the effect of collision on a vehicle. A traveling condition deciding unit decides whether or not the vehicle is in a dangerous traveling condition on the basis of the respective outputs of a vehicle monitoring system and an ambient condition monitoring system. A danger recognition confirming unit decides whether or not the driver is aware of the dangerous traveling condition on the basis of the respective outputs of a driver monitoring system, the ambient condition monitoring system and the vehicle monitoring system. When the traveling condition deciding unit decides that the vehicle is in the dangerous traveling condition, measures to avoid danger or to reduce the effect of collision on the vehicle are taken only when the driver is not aware of the dangerous traveling condition. Therefore, a danger avoidance effecting unit does not execute the measures to avoid danger or to reduce the effect of collision on the vehicle when the driver is aware of the dangerous traveling condition.

Danger avoidance system for a vehicle

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Hyogo, Japan

Yoshihiro Utsui