Collision warning apparatus for a vehicle

摘要

A collision avoidance and warning system for land vehicles including radar transmission and receiving apparatus (12) for sensing the presence of objects within a spatial range relative to a vehicle, multiple target tracking apparatus (14) receiving an output from the radar transmission and receiving apparatus for tracking a plurality of targets sensed by the radar transmission and receiving apparatus, auxiliary non-radar target sensing apparatus (18) and alarm decision apparatus (16) receiving an input from the multiple target tracking apparatus (14) and from the auxiliary non-radar target sensing apparatus (18) for indicating the alarm status of a target and providing an output indication to alarm generating apparatus (20).