System and method for implementing pre-cognition braking and/or avoiding or mitigation risks among platooning vehicles
US10474166B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 20, 2018 |
| Grant date | Nov 12, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 20, 2038 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W84/005
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A system and method for mitigating or avoiding risks due to hazards encountered by platooning vehicles. The system and method involve interrogating, with one or more sensors, a space radially extending from a lead vehicle as the lead vehicle travels over the road surface, perceiving the environment within the space, ascertaining a hazard caused by an object in the space, and causing a following vehicle, operating in a platoon with the lead vehicle, to take a preemptive braking action to avoid or mitigate risks resulting from the hazard caused by the object in the space.
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