A system and method for collecting, processing, storing, or transmitting traffic data. A localized data collection module may retrieve, receive, or intercept traffic data through or from hardware installed in a traffic control cabinet adjacent an intersection or other roadway feature of interest. Data which may have previously been confined to a closed loop traffic control system may be remotely accessible for traffic operations control or monitoring via a network connected server and/or cloud architecture.

A system and method for securing and verifying transmitted traffic data. A transmitter may send a transmission via a radio signal including traffic data through or from hardware installed in a traffic control cabinet adjacent an intersection or other roadway feature of interest. The transmission may be signed with a private key. A receiver associated with a vehicle may receive, in addition to the transmission, a public key (e.g., via a data network) for use in verification of the authenticity of the transmission.

A system and method for processing traffic data and locally generated data. A traffic signal monitoring device may be associated with a vehicle and configured to receive traffic data from traffic infrastructure devices. The traffic signal monitoring device may additionally or alternatively utilize local data (e.g., speed of the vehicle) to generate alerts to notify a driver of hazardous conditions or to suppress operations (e.g., notifications, menus) of a device to reduce distractions.

The invention relates to a method for controlling a braking system of a vehicle for distributing braking forces on at least one first and at least one second pistons of a disc brake caliper of the vehicle. The method is performed by a braking system control system for brake force distribution. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a request for applying a braking force following a braking action applied on a pedal/button of the braking system; receiving a first plurality of parameters associated with the braking system each representative of a current operating condition of the braking system; comparing each received parameter of said first plurality of parameters with a respective critical range for the reference parameters of a second plurality of parameters representative of a critical operating condition of the braking system; if at least one of the parameters of the first plurality of parameters equals the respective reference parameter of the second plurality of parameters, the method comprises the steps of: applying the first braking force to the at least one first piston of the caliper of disc brake, applying a second braking force to the at least one second piston of the caliper of disc brake, wherein the sum of the first and the second braking forces is equal to the requested braking force and a ratio between the first and the second braking forces is different from 1; if each of the parameters of the first plurality of parameters differs from the respective reference parameter of the second plurality of parameters, the method comprises the steps of: applying a third braking force equal to half the requested braking force to both the at least one first and the at least one second pistons of the disc brake caliper.

A system and method are provided for efficiently estimating vehicle tire wear. Vehicle kinetics (first) data are provided via one or more sensors associated with the vehicle and/or at least one associated tire. The vehicle kinetics data are locally processed to compress or otherwise generate second data as a reduced subset thereof, said second data representative of the first data and comprising any one or more predetermined wear-specific features extracted therefrom. The second data are selectively transmitted via a communications network to a remote computing system, which processes the second data to estimate a wear characteristic for the at least one tire. Alternatively, the second data processed to generate third data as a reconstruction of the first data, and the third data and the any one or more extracted features are processed to estimate a wear characteristic for the at least one tire.

A braking system for a rail-mounted traveling unit of a transfer vehicle. A brake arrangement can be adjusted between a braking position and a venting position and which is designed to exert a settable braking torque in the braking position. A control unit is designed to determine a braking torque and to activate accordingly the brake arrangement. A sensor arrangement detects an operating state of the transfer vehicle and external operating influences and transmits these to the control unit. During operation of the transfer vehicle the sensor arrangement detects the operating state of the transfer vehicle and the external operating influences on the transfer vehicle at periodic intervals and transmits these to the control unit as operating state data and operating influence data. During a braking process, the control unit determines a braking torque to be applied and activates the brake arrangement.

A vehicle control device includes a first control unit that executes, when an abnormality of a driver of a vehicle is detected, stop control, a second control unit that executes, when the vehicle is determined to have a risk of collision, deceleration control, a determination unit that identifies an object around the vehicle as a target candidate of the collision and determines whether or not there is the risk of the collision with the identified target candidate, and a setting unit that sets, when the abnormality is detected, an operation mode of the deceleration control to a special mode from a normal mode, the normal mode provided for cases in which the abnormality is undetected. The determination unit expands a range for identifying the object around the vehicle as the target candidate of the collision in the special mode as compared with the range in the normal mode.

A system for predicting a negative pressure of a brake booster of a vehicle includes: a driving information detector detecting driving information related to driving of the vehicle; and a controller determining a negative pressure of an intake manifold based on a pressure of the intake manifold and an atmospheric pressure which is the driving information and including a booster negative pressure predictor predicting the negative pressure of the brake booster by integrating over time a change rate according to a charging rate and a discharging rate of the negative pressure determined using a negative pressure of the brake booster determined in a previous cycle according to a logic for predicting the negative pressure of the brake booster and the negative pressure of the intake manifold of a current cycle and an imitated brake pedal force signal of the current cycle imitating an acceleration of the vehicle.

A vehicle guidance system for a motor vehicle is configured to determine a complexity indicator in relation to the complexity of a driving situation of the motor vehicle and to determine one or more trigger conditions as a function of the complexity indicator. The vehicle guidance system is further configured to cause an automated emergency stop of the motor vehicle if one or more trigger conditions occur.

A method can include detecting an amount of a force applied to a brake of a vehicle. The method can also include, after detecting the force applied to the brake of the vehicle, illuminating one or more light emitting devices of the vehicle in a manner indicative of the amount of the force detected to have been applied to the brake of the vehicle. Other embodiments are described.