Patent ID: 9251709
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: B60Q,G01S,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle contact warning system comprising: a detector system configured to detect a distance between a remote vehicle and a host vehicle equipped with the vehicle contact warning system and whether a signal indicator on the remote vehicle is activated; a controller programmed to determine whether at least one of a signal indicator on the host vehicle is activated by a driver of the host vehicle and a speed at which the distance between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle is decreasing is greater than a predetermined speed; and a warning indicator configured to notify the driver of the host vehicle upon the detector system detecting the signal indicator on the remote vehicle and the controller determining that at least one of the signal indicator of the host vehicle is activated and the speed at which the distance between the host vehicle and the remote vehicle is decreasing is greater than the predetermined speed.