Patent ID: 8886450

Claim:
A method of identifying manoeuvres for a vehicle in conflict situations involving the vehicle and at least one other object, the method comprising: for given vehicle and other object conditions, calculating a plurality of miss points at which the vehicle will miss an impact with the at least one other object by a range of miss distances, each range of miss distances representative of a range of respective future minimum separations between the vehicle and the at least one other object for possible vehicle directions; for the given vehicle and object conditions, calculating the location of at least one collision point at which the vehicle will impact the other object; displaying in a directional view display the miss points such that a plurality of miss points at which the vehicle would miss impact by a given miss distance indicative of a given degree of potential conflict is visually distinguishable from other miss points at which the vehicle would miss impact by greater miss distances indicative of a lesser degree of potential conflict; and displaying the at least one collision point in the directional view display; whereby the directional view display indicates varying degrees of potential conflict indicative of respective risks of collision to thereby present a range of available manoeuvres for the vehicle and the risk of collision associated with each available manoeuvre.