A device, method and computer program for detecting vehicle driving characteristics indicative of a tailgating situation is disclosed. The device comprises: monitoring circuitry for monitoring at least one signal indicative of at least one of vehicle acceleration, throttle data, brake data, engine load, engine rotational speed and vehicle speed; analysing circuitry operable to determine a frequency of changes in the at least one monitored signal and to generate a signal indicative of the vehicle being in a tailgating situation in response to determining the frequency of changes reaching or exceeding at least one threshold value.
Detection of tailgating situations
2016-08-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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