Patent ID: 9731728
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: B60W,G01S

Claim:
1. A sensor abnormality detection device comprising: a first sensor configured to detect a situation of a first region at a periphery of an own vehicle; a second sensor configured to detect a situation of a second region at the periphery of the own vehicle, the second region being a region different from the first region and including an overlapping region that overlaps a part of the first region; a sensor abnormality determination means configured to determine presence or absence of abnormality of the first sensor and the second sensor; and a collision detection means configured to detect collision of the own vehicle to an object exterior to the vehicle; wherein the sensor abnormality determination means determines that at least one of the first sensor and the second sensor has abnormality, at the time the first region and the second region do not overlap in the overlapping region, after the collision detection means detects the collision.