US 12,304,474 B2
Threat mitigation for vehicles
Erik Lindberg Nilsson, Gothenburg (SE); and Jonathan Johansson, Gothenburg (SE)
Assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co., Ltd., Ningbo (CN)
Filed by Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co., Ltd., Ningbo (CN)
Filed on Apr. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/734,040.
Application 17/734,040 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2020/126062, filed on Nov. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19207664 (EP), filed on Nov. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0250617 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/095 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/0956 (2013.01) [B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4046 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); B60W 2554/804 (2020.02)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for controlling a vehicle, the method comprising:
automatically determining that one or more surrounding vehicles demonstrates threatening behavior by:
acquiring, with one or more sensors mounted on the vehicle, information regarding a first surrounding vehicle directly in front of the vehicle; and
interpreting the information, with a controller, to detect that the first surrounding vehicle slows down in an absence of a traffic related reason to slow down in conjunction with detecting, based on further information from the one or more sensors, that a person approaches the vehicle; and
upon determining that the one or more surrounding vehicles demonstrates threatening behavior, the controller automatically controlling the vehicle to perform one or more threat evasive actions selected from activating an intrusion mitigating maneuver, disabling a collision avoidance system, and taking an available escape route.