DE10217834A1 - Externally-indicating speedometer for motor vehicles and motor cycles, comprises multicolored light strip on front and rear of vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

Externally, on the front and rear of the vehicle, a multi-colored light strip serves as a speedometer indicator. As the colored lamps light up progressively, they indicate the speed of travel.

Description

Considered additional road safety I have a speedometer on motor vehicles, which on the front as well as the back a motor vehicle is grown as a multi-colored light bar and through connection with the existing speedometer in the car, the driven Speed by lighting up the other road users makes visible. Ideally, the multi-colored light bar in the bumper area or right over it (see sketch sheet 1 & 2) be grown.

Of course there is also a light bar grateful on the lower edge of the forward and rear window. The light bar itself is structured in the decimal system, consists of four different ones Colors where the colors do not match the existing light colors Motor vehicle may collide.

It is provided the light spots or strips of light increasing from left to right at 5 km / h per Install point / strip. These light up from 0 km / h to each driven speed. The first color (5 × 5 stripes) range from 0 to 25 km / h, followed by the second color (5 × 5 strips) display from 26 to 50 km / h and with another color (5 × 5 stripes) 51 to 75 km / h) continue the light band. As the fourth and last Color (5 × 5 Stiffen) the light band shows the speed from 76 to 100 Km / h at.

Repeats from 101 to 200 km / h the light band. Also from 201 to 300 km / h (for the very fast vehicles).

For better identification a highlighting of the speed is planned at 100 and 200 km / h.

This identification is done by. an extension the light points / light streaks reached (see sketch sheet 1 & 2).

The light strip consists of a maximum of four different colors, since more colors would make the light strip confusing and the color GREEN is always in second place in the repeating light strip.
GREEN = 50 km / h in city traffic
GREEN = 100 km / h on country roads
GREEN = 130 km / h speed on motorways

The advantages of this outside speedometer are obvious. For example, the police only have a simple camera necessary, to document the speed of a road user. As a driver of a vehicle, I can do the same in front of the car Distance, read my own speed without the traffic jeopardy Look at my speedometer. I no longer need the view from that road turn away.

Even the overtaking process on a two-lane road will be safer because I am in a possibly oncoming vehicle can read the speed and does not have to vaguely estimate it. With an unlocking one behind me Vehicle can be read at which speed the vehicle is approaching.

The risk for and before motorcycling would also be reduced, because here too the speed can be read and is not vaguely protected got to.

However, the light bar must be divided into three and attached to one another.
0 to 100 km / h = top light bar
101 to 200 km / h = middle light bar
201 to 300 km / h = lower light bar

But the essential point is more Security for Children.

Everyone knows that children have speed can estimate vehicles even worse than adults.

So it is possible to give the children Preschool age speeds based on colors (like that Traffic lights) to explain and so they lead to even more careful behavior in traffic move.

Claims (1)

External tachometer on motor vehicles and motorcycles, characterized in that a multicolored electrical strip of lights attached to the outside and on the front and rear of motor vehicles and motorcycles serves as a speedometer, which indicates the respective speed driven by the multicolored lighting of the lamps.