US 12,067,881 B1
Motor vehicle safety systems and methods for protecting bicyclists
Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, San Antonio, TX (US); Christopher Russell, The Colony, TX (US); Gregory David Hansen, San Antonio, TX (US); Nathan Lee Post, Rockport, TX (US); Ashley Raine Philbrick, San Antonio, TX (US); Nolan Serrao, Plano, TX (US); Ruthie D. Lyle, Durham, NC (US); Pooja Krishnaswamy, McKinney, TX (US); and Noemy Diosdado, Como, TX (US)
Assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA), San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed by UIPCO, LLC, San Antonio, TX (US)
Filed on Sep. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/484,826.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/084,880, filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Int. Cl. G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 40/06 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01)
CPC G08G 1/166 (2013.01) [B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 40/06 (2013.01); B60W 60/0017 (2020.02); G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/90 (2018.02); B60W 2554/4026 (2020.02); B60W 2554/801 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for enhancing motor vehicle safety in a vicinity of a bicyclist travelling on a road, comprising:
a mobile computing device associated with a bicyclist; and
at least one server computing device in electronic communication with the mobile computing device, the server computing device including a processor and machine-readable media including instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to
receive from the mobile computing device location data describing a location of the mobile computing device;
generate and send to the mobile computing device a prompt including multiple options for a safety distance;
wherein the multiple options for a safety distance include one or more static options that are a set distance, and one more dynamic options that are based on a legal requirement of a minimum passing distance required by law in a location where the bicyclist is currently travelling on the road;
receive a safety distance input selection from the bicyclist in response to the prompt, wherein the bicyclist selects one of the multiple options for the safety distance presented by the prompt;
wherein the mobile computing device is configured to display a visual representation of the exclusion zone to the bicyclist in comparison to one or more exclusion zones based on safety distances that were not selected from the prompt including multiple options for the safety distance,
calculate a safety distance around the location of the mobile computing device based on the safety distance input selection on the prompt;
calculate an exclusion zone set of location coordinates based on the safety distance and the location of the mobile computing device; and
send to a motor vehicle computing device the exclusion zone set of location coordinates, wherein the motor vehicle computing device is configured to maneuver the motor vehicle such that no part of the motor vehicle enters an area described by the exclusion zone set of location coordinates.