Patent ID: 8791836

Claim:
A method of assessing threats to a vehicle to facilitate a reflexive response, the method comprising: determining based, at least in part, on a plurality of information sources, a plurality of threat timeline parameters for a detected threat to the vehicle, wherein the plurality of threat timeline parameters includes a first threat mode and a time progression of the threat in the first threat mode; determining, with at least one processor, one or more candidate solutions based, at least in part, on the first threat mode and the time progression; providing at least one of the one or more candidate solutions to an operator of the vehicle to enable the operator to mediate the threat; determining based, at least in part, on the plurality of information sources, a time to transition to a second threat mode; and determining based, at least in part, on the time to transition to the second threat mode, whether at least one first solution exists to mediate the threat within the first threat mode.