Patent ID: 9598078
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B60W,G05D,G08G

Claim:
1. A method for handling a computed prediction that a motor-vehicle accident involving first and second motor-vehicles will occur, the first and second motor-vehicles being arranged relative to each other and relative to a third motor-vehicle so that (i) the second motor-vehicle is behind the first motor-vehicle and (ii) the first motor-vehicle is behind the third motor-vehicle, the method comprising: a. operating an onboard computer of a first motor-vehicle to (i) computationally predict that the motor-vehicle accident will occur where the first motor-vehicle is predicted to be hit from behind by the second motor-vehicle and (ii) computationally predict one or more parameters of the motor-vehicle accident that is predicted to occur; b. in response to the predicting and computing, wirelessly transmitting, by non-visual electromagnetic (EM) radiation and from the first motor-vehicle, an accident alert comprising (i) the prediction that the motor-vehicle accident will occur and (ii) the one or more computationally predicted parameters of the motor-vehicle accident that is predicted to occur; c. receiving the accident alert by the third motor-vehicle that is in front of the first motor-vehicle; and d. in response to the receiving of the accident alert, performing, by an onboard computer of the third motor-vehicle at least one vehicle control action so as to attempt at least one of the following: