Patent ID: 9047778
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: B60W,G08G

Abstract:
1. A system for a vehicle, comprising: a user interface for providing information to and receiving information from a user of the vehicle, the user interface including either a touch display or a keypad and a display; a system of one or more sensors for sensing location and velocity of the user's vehicle; a short range transmitter for direct wireless broadcast of data regarding the sensed location and velocity of the user's vehicle without engaging the public wireless mobile communications network; a short range receiver for direct wireless reception of wirelessly broadcast data regarding location and velocity of any other vehicle within the short range of the user's vehicle without engaging the public wireless mobile communications network; a telematics unit, comprising: a control unit, responsive to a detected emergency condition to control the network access device of the telematics unit to report the detected emergency condition through the public wireless mobile network to the call center and responsive to the system of one or more sensors and the short range receiver, for controlling information output for the user via the user interface, wherein the control unit also is configured to: receive, from the user via the keypad or the touch display of the user interface, a selection of a collision hazard criteria from among a plurality of collision hazard criteria, when data is directly received from a plurality of other vehicles within the short range of the user's vehicle without engaging the public wireless mobile communications network, select another vehicle from among the plurality of other vehicles based on the user-selected collision hazard criteria, process the location and velocity of the user's vehicle and the received data regarding location and velocity of the selected other vehicle to detect a collision hazard relative to the selected other vehicle and detect one of a plurality of levels of risk of collision relative to the selected other vehicle, and responsive to the detections, cause the user interface to output a hazard alert indicating the detected level of risk of collision relative to the selected other vehicle.