VEHICLE SAFETY SYSTEM AND METHOD

• Main Authors: Price, Matthew, Murugesan, Rajasekaran, Singh, Satendra Kumar, Chandrasekaran, Shankar
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.03.2024
• Subjects: ARRANGEMENT OF BRAKING ELEMENTS ON VEHICLES IN GENERAL; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF, IN GENERAL; CHECKING-DEVICES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PORTABLE DEVICES FOR PREVENTING UNWANTED MOVEMENT OFVEHICLES; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLE BRAKE CONTROL SYSTEMS OR PARTS THEREOF; VEHICLE MODIFICATIONS TO FACILITATE COOLING OF BRAKES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS

The present disclosure relates generally to a vehicle safety system. The vehicle safety system may include operational sensors sensing operational characteristics of a vehicle, environmental sensors sensing environmental characteristics of an environment external to the vehicle, and one or more processors. The operational and environmental sensors may output operational and environmental data based on the operational and environmental characteristics that are sensed by the respective sensors. The processors may examine the operational and environmental data to determine whether the vehicle is in a safe state for an onboard operator of the vehicle to exit the vehicle while avoiding the vehicle rolling away from a stationary state. The processors may examine the operational and environmental data to determine whether the vehicle is not in the safe state and may generate one or more notifications to the operator in response to determining that the vehicle is not in the safe state.