Detection of oncoming vehicles with IR light

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9984567
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15260583

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Infrared light is detected in a vehicle computer via an infrared sensor from a source outside the host vehicle. The computer can further determine that the infrared light was generated from a source in a second vehicle, detect the second vehicle based at least partly on the detected infrared light and possibly also partly on input from a host vehicle collision detection sensor.

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FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC300 TOWN CENTER DRIVE SUITE 800 DEARBORN MI 48126

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Bidner, David Karl Livonia, US 135 1656
Clark, Timothy Joseph Livonia, US 48 626

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