Patent ID: 9613466
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: B60R,B60W,G01C,G01S,G07C

Claim:
1. A driver improvement method comprising: one of inputting via a global positioning satellite (GPS) enabled computer and pre-installing onto the GPS enabled computer information on vehicle configuration and load parameters; automatically, via the GPS enabled computer, locating the vehicle and determining its direction of travel and speed once driving is underway; automatically, via the GPS enabled computer, selecting a road segment that the vehicle is traversing from a linked map data base that contains accurate three dimensional characterizations of road centerlines, curve radii and slopes; automatically, via the GPS enabled computer, calculating a recommended safe speed (RSS) or selecting the RSS from a data base that has been created by previously calculating the RSS that the vehicle can use to transit a next road segment from the information on vehicle configuration and load parameters along with the curve radii and slopes; and automatically, via the GPS enabled computer, providing the RSS to a driver in the form of an alert.