Patent ID: 8489284

Claim:
A method, comprising: monitoring, via a computing device, a driver's orientation within a first vehicle; detecting a change in the driver's orientation; calculating, in response to detecting the change in the driver's orientation, a change to a rear blind spot dimensional area of the first vehicle, where the rear blind spot dimensional area comprises coordinates and dimensions of an area behind a peripheral view area of the driver and outside of rear viewable areas of viewable mirrors of the vehicle; applying the calculated change to the rear blind spot dimensional area to a statistical model of dangerous vehicle situations, where the statistical model to which the calculated change to the rear blind spot dimensional area is applied comprises a probabilistic function comprising at least one of a Gaussian distribution and a uniform distribution of at least one of the dangerous blind spot coordinates, dangerous information about the first vehicle, and dangerous characteristics of a vehicular environment surrounding the first vehicle; and predicting a dangerous situation associated with the first vehicle based upon a result of the calculated change to the rear blind spot dimensional area applied to the statistical model of the dangerous vehicle situations.