Vehicle impact warning device

Abstract

Disclosed is a vehicle impact warning device which is to be installed in a motor vehicle and is composed of a deceleration sensor that allows decelerations extending approximately parallel to the roadway to be detected, and a switch that can be activated by the deceleration sensor. The switch can trigger a first electromagnetic wireless warning signal and a warning signal as a visible warning signal and / or an acoustic warning signal via a radio transmitter.

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to a vehicle collision warning device for installation in a motor vehicle, comprising a deceleration sensor and a switch by means of which deceleration in a direction substantially parallel to the road can be detected and by which the deceleration sensor can be activated switch. Background technique [0002] In road traffic, there are many accidents that are only the consequence of accidents that happened a short time ago. The main cause of accidents is that following road users do not have information about the accident situation which happened immediately before them and they are not immediately informed of this information. In the course of these so-called "secondary accidents", a particularly typical and frequent pattern of behavior is that the driver assumes that the motor vehicle driving immediately in front of him will continue to proceed at a constant speed as before in the near future and in the near future. The driver'...

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Problems solved by technology

[0006] However, a serious disadvantage of these information systems is the significant time delay between the occurrence of an accident and the notification of subsequent motorists

This is especially very disadvantageous for motorists who do not follow the accident vehicle at a close enough distance to observe the course of the accident by their own observation, but drive at a sufficient distance, because The course of an accident that cannot be directly observed by other vehicles and / or curves and clumps of vegetation, elevations or buildings, and is necessarily caused by delayed reactions (reaction times) of motorists in front of them and insufficient inter-vehicle spacing They then have to brake hard and in many cases hard at a short enough distance, and in some cases, by the time they realize the need to slow down suddenly, they find that there is no longer enough traffic on the road. distance to slow down

[0007] Another disadvantage of broadcasting accident information is that it does not give willing drivers and passengers the opportunity to assist after an accident due to the significant time delay

[0010] To date, there have been no known reports of accidents involving direct vehicle activation

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