Patent ID: 9650041
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: B60W,G01S,G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method of providing an accident warning alert in a vehicle comprising: detecting a location of at least one lane marker, a location of an adjacent vehicle, and a location of the vehicle relative to the at least one lane marker based on a proximity sensor; determining an eye gaze vector based on an eye gaze detector and determining a current pupil size of a driver; gathering, using the eye gaze vector determined from the eye gaze detector, driver experience information based on an amount of time the driver uses peripheral vision and the driver's reaction time to the adjacent vehicle, wherein the driver experience information is further based on an amount of time the driver has spent driving in a current weather condition; determining, using a processor, a metric of driver awareness of the vehicle location with respect to the location of the at least one lane marker using the eye gaze vector; determining, using the processor, a vehicle accident risk based on the relative location of the vehicle and the at least one lane marker; locking out a vehicle infotainment system, using the processor, the locking out based on the vehicle accident risk, the driver experience level, the current weather condition, a comparison of the current pupil size of the driver to a baseline pupil size for the driver, and the metric of the driver awareness of the vehicle location with respect to the location of the at least one lane marker and the adjacent vehicle; and activating a vehicle alert, using the processor, the vehicle alert based on the vehicle accident risk, the driver experience level, and the metric of the driver awareness of the vehicle location with respect to the location of the at least one lane marker.