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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2014
The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Kodama, Hiratsuka, JP;
Koji Nakatani, Hiratsuka, JP;
Abstract
A collision avoidance system comprises: a following vehicle data acquiring unit that acquires following vehicle data indicating the relative position and relative speed of a following vehicle traveling behind the host vehicle; a travel data acquiring unit that obtains travel data indicating travel conditions for the host vehicle; a specific state extraction unit that extracts specific travel data indicating specific travel conditions for the host vehicle under which the possibility of a collision between the host vehicle and the following vehicle is high; a database unit storing a plurality of pieces of specific travel data; a determination unit that determines whether or not there is the possibility of a collision between the host vehicle and the following vehicle; and a warning data output unit that outputs warning data to the following vehicle if the determination unit determines that there is the possibility of a collision.