Patent ID: 8330620
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for issuing warnings in vehicles about hazardous situations as a function of their location, wherein the respective vehicles which are involved in the method include means for exchanging information, means for outputting warning signals, means for determining their own location coordinates, driver assistance systems and vehicle safety systems, said method comprising the steps of: a) activating the means for outputting warning signals in a first vehicle; b) transmitting a position of the first vehicle via the means for exchanging information as first information and transmitting an actuated warning signal to the surrounding vehicles as second information; c) receiving the first and second information in at least one further vehicle via the means for exchanging information; d) comparing and evaluating the first information received in step (c) with further information relating to the position of the further vehicle; and e) initiating measures for minimizing a hazardous situation in the event of a hazardous situation for the vehicles which are in the surroundings by means of the driver assistance and vehicle safety systems in the respective receiving vehicles, and wherein before the information is transmitted, the warning signal is monitored over a specific time period and a transmission is not made by the means for exchanging information until a velocity of the transmitting vehicle drops below a specific threshold and the transmission takes place as a broadcast transmission, a multicast transmission, a unicast transmission, or any combination thereof.