Patent ID: 8742910

Claim:
An impact alert system for reducing personal injury at vehicle impact, comprising: at least one sensor arrangement, adapted to monitor the surroundings of a vehicle, and to generate surrounding signals dependent thereon; a control unit adapted to receive said surrounding signals, and to evaluate said signals in order to predict, depending on said signals, whether an impact situation will occur; and an attention system adapted to generate signals perceptible to an occupant of the vehicle, wherein said control unit is configured to, in the event that said impact situation is predicted to occur: determine a hit direction, relative to the vehicle, of said impact situation, and a point of time said impact situation will occur, depending on said signals, determine, for said occupant of the vehicle, an optimal muscle activation for said impact situation for creating a pre-tensioning of a set of muscles of said occupant that will reduce an impact energy of the impact situation upon the body of said occupant, the control unit configured to determine said optimal muscle activation according to predetermined rules based upon at least one of said determined hit direction, a detected velocity of impact situation, and said determined point of time for said impact situation, and initiate said attention system to cause said occupant in said vehicle to achieve said optimal muscle activation before said point of time of said impact situation.