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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2015
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Commerce Township, MI (US);
Basavaraj Tonshal, Northville, MI (US);
Yifan Chen, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Padma Aiswarya Kolisetty, Chennai, IN;
Hsin-hsiang Yang, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 30/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 50/16 (2020.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 30/095 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 50/16 (2013.01); G08G 1/166 (2013.01); B60W 2550/308 (2013.01);
Abstract
A headway between a first vehicle and a second vehicle is determined. A predicted time to collision between the first vehicle and the second vehicle is determined. A first mechanism in a wearable device in the first vehicle is actuated when the headway is less than a predetermined threshold. A second mechanism in the first vehicle is actuated when the predicted time to collision is less than a second predetermined threshold.