The method involves vehicle seniors detecting a critical situation, whereby the driver's attention is detected and a warning of a critical situation is output depending on the driver's attention. It involves detecting the operation and/or use of equipment ...

The fault event monitoring method uses a processor for calculation of the fault events dependent on automobile parameters, with differentiation between safety critical and non-critical fault events, the critical fault events indicated immediately and the i...

In an automotive failure diagnosing system configured to conduct malfunction diagnosing display by operating a lamp (5) in response to a CPU hang-up detection signal (WDA) output from a microcomputer (2) that monitors whether a control microcomputer (1) is...

The display device has a display surface (12) and at least one operating element (14) for selecting the display of a data value. The data value represents an operating condition of elements or appliances in the caravan or ambient parameters such as tempera...

A system and method for controlling onboard equipment , which can make a driver certainly understand operations of alarms corresponding to various functions of a vehicle, and which can give full effect to the functions of the vehicle. When drive guide data...

A fail-safe system (Fig.2) used in integrated control of a vehicle includes structural-element control portions. Preset priority degrees are given to the structural-element control portions, respectively. A manager control portion (10) stores one or more s...

The method for alerting a car driver when sensors mounted on the car detect a critical situation comprises determining the degree of attentiveness of the driver and providing an alarm signal appropriate to this. The degree of attentiveness is determined by...

The rewriting system for rewriting data stored in a memory (16) of a vehicle controller (10) with new data is provided. The rewriting device (11) is capable of communicating with the vehicle controller. The rewriting device enters a waiting state in which ...