Patent ID: 7479897

Claim:
A method for preventing vehicle rollover for a vehicle traveling on a road, said method comprising: for each present position of said vehicle as said vehicle travels on said road, forecasting future speed of said vehicle as a function of future position of said vehicle on said road, for a plurality of points that are distributed throughout a segment of said road forward of said vehicle, based on an assumption regarding a driving behavior of an operator of said vehicle relative to statistical speed data for vehicles traveling said road, and based on road geometry data contained in a map; at each said present position of said vehicle, determining a maximum safe speed of said vehicle for each of said plurality of points in said road segment forward of said vehicle, based on a maximum lateral acceleration, on said road geometry and on physical parameters of said vehicle; and generating a rollover warning for any current position of said vehicle on said road at which the forecast future speed for at least one particular point on said road segment forward of said vehicle exceeds the determined maximum safe speed at said at least one particular point.