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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 15, 2020
Applicant:

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;

Inventors:

Matthias Klawitter, Braunschweig, DE;

Onno Sundermann, Braunschweig, DE;

Eduard Seib, Wolfsburg, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/16 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/161 (2013.01); G08G 1/0112 (2013.01); G08G 1/166 (2013.01);
Abstract

To improve road safety, a method for warning about a hazardous situation in road traffic is specified, wherein the hazardous situation is identified by means of a vehicle guidance system and a warning system is to used to determine whether a road user is within an effective range in surroundings of a motor vehicle. Depending on the identified hazardous situation, the warning system is used to transmit a warning signal to the road user before an automatic reaction to the hazardous situation is initiated or prepared by means of the electronic vehicle guidance system.


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