An integrated light bar for emergency vehicles and having a vehicle detection and warning sensor intermediate, preferably medial, opposing ends of the light bar, for alerting a responder at a crash site to take evasive action to a detected on-coming motor vehicle move-over failure, which light bar configured with supports for mounting to the emergency vehicle and having a processor that couples to the sensor, and an alerting device that couples to the processor. The sensor may be an imaging device, radar unit, or similar. The alerting device includes warning lights, a tactile device, and an audio unit for warning signals. The system detects an approaching vehicle, and with a longitudinal axis of a rescue vehicle determines a position angle line and spacing between the system and the approaching vehicle. Through a sequence of positions of the approaching vehicle, the processor determines the possibility of a collision based upon the change in the angle between the longitudinal axis and the position angle line and the approaching vehicle. A message device presents an instructional imperative for an averting movement of the approaching vehicle. A method of alerting a responder to a failure of an on-coming vehicle to move over and for instruction averting movement of the approaching vehicle is disclosed.
INTEGRATED LIGHT BAR AND MESSAGE DISPLAY VEHICLE WARNING SYSTEM FOR ALERTING RESPONDERS TO ONCOMING MOTOR VEHICLES
2024-05-16
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion |