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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2014
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Neal Probert, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Roy Goudy, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Jeremy Chambers, Casco, MI (US);
Andy Christensen, Livonia, MI (US);
NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC., Franklin, TN (US);
Abstract
A method of monitoring emergency vehicles includes generating host vehicle information with a navigation unit, the host vehicle information including a host vehicle location and a host vehicle heading, receiving emergency vehicle information with a receiver, the emergency vehicle information including an emergency vehicle emergency status, an emergency vehicle location and an emergency vehicle heading, determining with a controller a distance between the host vehicle location and the emergency vehicle location, determining with the controller whether the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is decreasing, and performing a mitigation operation, when the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is decreasing, and the distance between host vehicle and the emergency vehicle is a threshold distance or less.