Patent ID: 7076366

Claim:
A collision avoidance system for a vehicle, comprising: a warning device; a plurality of sensors that are arranged around the vehicle and that have sensing zones, wherein each of said sensors sense objects that are located in respective ones of said sensing zones and generate sensor signals that are related to a distance between respective ones of said sensors and the objects located in said sensing zones; memory that stores a plurality of location profiles, each location profile associated with a different operational location of the vehicle, wherein each of said location profiles defines at least one alarm limit for each of said sensors suitable for the current location of the vehicle; a vehicle collision avoidance controller that communicates with said plurality of sensors and that triggers said warning device when said sensor signal that is associated with one of said plurality of sensors exceeds a respective one of said alarm limits in said selected location profile; a location profile selection device that allows user selection from among said plurality of location profiles from said memory as the vehicle travels among various locations; and a location profile setting module that allows at least one of creation, editing and deletion of said location profiles as the vehicle travels among various locations.