Patent ID: 7613568
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: B60R,G01S

Abstract:
1. A crash-safe vehicle control system for controlling an own vehicle, comprising: an object-information obtaining device operable to obtain object information on each of at least one preceding object existing in front of the own vehicle, the object information including information relating to a position of each preceding object relative to the own vehicle; an operating device operable in the presence of a high possibility of crashing of the own vehicle with one of said at least one preceding object; and a crash-safe control device operable to control the operating device on the basis of the object information on said at least one preceding object obtained by the object-information obtaining device, and wherein said crash-safe control device is operable to effect a non-first-preceding-object-information-dependent control of said operating device, on the basis of non-first-preceding-object information obtained by said object-information obtaining device, in the presence of a high possibility of crashing of the own vehicle with a first preceding vehicle which is one of said at least one preceding object and which exists immediately in front of the own vehicle, the non-first-preceding-object information relating to at least one non-first preceding object each of which is one of said at least one preceding object and exists in front of the first preceding vehicle, said crash-safe control device being operable to estimate a possibility of crashing between the first preceding vehicle and said at least one non-first preceding object and control the operating device on the basis of the estimated possibility of crashing between the first preceding vehicle and the at least one non-first preceding object.