A vehicle grille assembly is provided herein. The grille assembly includes a panel sealingly coupled to a substrate and defining a cavity therebetween. A light source is disposed within the cavity. A diffuser is disposed between the light source and a portion of the panel.

A B-pillar vehicle warning system includes a plurality of regions that can be illuminated to provide green, yellow, and red light. The warning system may be configured to utilize inputs from an autonomous driving sensing system to determine a location of a pedestrian, cyclist, vehicle, etc. relative to the vehicle. The system may be configured to illuminate specific lights in a predefined sequence based on a position of a pedestrian to alert/warn a pedestrian approaching the vehicle.

A vehicle control system including: a recognizer that is configured to recognize a surroundings status of a vehicle; and a driving controller that is configured to perform control of causing at least the vehicle to move forward or causing the vehicle to move backward on the basis of the surrounding status recognized by the recognizer; and a notification controller that is configured to notify traffic participants in the vicinity of the vehicle using an outputter in a case in which the vehicle having stopped is caused to advance in a second direction opposite to a first direction in which the vehicle has advanced before stopping by the driving controller, the driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to advance in the second direction after the outputter is configured to perform the notification.

A light guiding device includes a light guide body including a light incoupling side for incoupling light from a light source, a light outcoupling side, and a plurality of light guiding funnels, each of the light guiding funnels being provided with a reflection side that deflects light from the light incoupling side to the light outcoupling side of the light guide body, where the light guiding funnels are provided with light adjustment by bundling or focusing light within light outcoupling windows at the light outcoupling side, and at least one of a length of the light guiding funnels, a width of the light guiding funnels, a number of the light guiding funnels, a surface structure of the reflection side of the light guiding funnels, or an optical means provided at or by the reflection side is adapted to the light outcoupling windows for providing illumination areas.

Techniques for drone device control are provided. In one example, the technique includes monitoring, by a drone device operatively coupled to a processor and allocated to a vehicle in operation, one or more conditions associated with the vehicle. The technique also includes, in response to identifying, by the drone device, a defined condition of the one or more conditions: moving, by the drone device, to a position relative to the vehicle and determined based on the defined condition; and performing, by the drone device, an indication operation determined based on the defined condition.

This invention relates in general to the field of safety devices, and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to systems and methods for providing advanced warning and risk evasion when hazardous conditions exist. In one embodiment, a vicinity monitoring unit is provided for monitoring, for example, oncoming traffic near a construction zone. In some embodiments, the vicinity monitoring unit may be mounted onto a construction vehicle to monitor nearby traffic and send a warning signal if hazardous conditions exist. In some embodiments, personnel tracking units may be worn by construction workers and the personnel tracking units may be in communication with the vicinity monitoring unit. In some embodiments, a base station is provided for monitoring activities taking place in or near a construction site including monitoring the locations of various personnel and vehicles within the construction site.

In an embodiment a fire extinguishing system includes a plurality of fire extinguishing injectors filled with fire extinguishing chemicals, the fire extinguishing injectors configured to be installed in a vehicle to be able to inject the fire extinguishing chemical to a tire and a fire detection line installed to connect between the plurality of fire extinguishing injectors, wherein each of the fire extinguishing injectors comprises a pressure generator in which a pressure generation chemical is installed and a tank is filled with the fire extinguishing chemical, the tank having a plurality of injection holes, wherein the fire detection line is connected to each pressure generator to generate injection pressure due to the pressure generation chemical when a fire is detected through the fire detection line, and wherein each tank is coupled to the pressure generator to allow the fire extinguishing chemical in the tank to be injected through the injection holes due to action of the injection pressure generated by the pressure generator.

In an embodiment a fire extinguishing system includes a plurality of fire extinguishing injectors filled with fire extinguishing chemicals, the fire extinguishing injectors configured to be installed in a vehicle to be able to inject the fire extinguishing chemical to a tire and a fire detection line installed to connect between the plurality of fire extinguishing injectors, wherein each of the fire extinguishing injectors comprises a pressure generator in which a pressure generation chemical is installed and a tank is filled with the fire extinguishing chemical, the tank having a plurality of injection holes, wherein the fire detection line is connected to each pressure generator to generate injection pressure due to the pressure generation chemical when a fire is detected through the fire detection line, and wherein each tank is coupled to the pressure generator to allow the fire extinguishing chemical in the tank to be injected through the injection holes due to action of the injection pressure generated by the pressure generator.

A method for safeguarding a self-driving, damaged vehicle includes independently detecting damage of the damaged vehicle by the damaged vehicle and sending information concerning the damage to a central computing unit, connected with the damaged vehicle, of an operator of the damaged vehicle by the damaged vehicle. Information concerning the damage of the vehicle is sent to a superior authority by the central computing unit. A further central computing unit of an operator of a self-driving further vehicle located near the damaged vehicle is informed about the damaged vehicle by the superior authority. When the further vehicle is moving towards the damaged vehicle, the further vehicle is put into a safeguarding mode by the further central computing unit.

Systems and methods for deploying emergency roadside signaling devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a control system for an object placing device of an autonomous vehicle includes a processor, and a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to: receive a signal comprising instructions to activate the object placing device; and provide instructions to the object placing device to place a plurality of signaling devices in accordance with predetermined criteria.