Patent ID: 8768573
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: B60R,B60W,G01G,G07C

Abstract:
1. A land vehicle, comprising: an occupant safety system that is designed to reduce injury to an occupant during an accident involving the vehicle; a processor coupled to said safety system and that receives at least one inertial property of the vehicle and information about a portion of a road ahead of the vehicle in a travel direction of the vehicle, wherein said processor is configured to initiate action to ensure safe travel of the vehicle or safety of the occupant when said processor determines, based on the at least one inertial property and the information, that the vehicle is unlikely to safely travel that portion of the road; and at least one accelerometer that provides acceleration of the vehicle in three orthogonal directions to said processor and at least one gyroscope that provides angular velocity of the vehicle to said processor such that the at least one inertial property includes acceleration of the vehicle in three orthogonal directions and angular velocity of the vehicle about three orthogonal axes, the accelerations and angular velocities being measured at a substantially common location.