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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2015
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Roy Goudy, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Neal Probert, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Jeremy Chambers, Casco, MI (US);
Andrew Christensen, South Lyon, MI (US);
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Abstract
A method for providing information to a driver of a vehicle includes receiving, at a host vehicle via a wireless electronic communication link, messages that each include remote vehicle information for a respective one of the one or more remote vehicles; identifying host vehicle information for the host vehicle; determining that a potential message occlusion exists based at least in part on the remote vehicle information for the one or more remote vehicles and the host vehicle information; and in response to determining that a potential message occlusion exists, causing a message occlusion alert to be output.