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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Subharthi Banerjee, Dearborn, MI (US);
Somak Datta Gupta, Novi, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
This disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods pertaining to a group of vehicles that cooperatively provide information about a traffic event. In an example embodiment, a method executed by a first processor in a first vehicle may involve detecting a trigger condition that portends a traffic event. The first vehicle may form a video sharing group with one or more other vehicles. At least one vehicle of the video sharing group may capture a video recording of the traffic event and share the video recording with members of the video sharing group. The video recording may contain information that is useable for various purposes. In an example scenario, a reporting vehicle of the video sharing group may transmit the video recording to a server computer that is configured to allow for further operations such as, for example, initiating an insurance procedure and/or filing a police report.