Electronic system for advanced activation of automotive brake-lights and its configuration

摘要

Automotive braking technology has made significant advances over the past 35 years but, while these improvements resulted in considerably reduced braking distances, the electrical system for activating the vehicle's brake-lights has remained static. The aim of the present invention is to have the brake-lights of automotive vehicles in general activated as soon as the driver takes his foot off the accelerator. This configuration gives the driver of the vehicle following a lead-time to react not currently available. To implement this new configuration, the invention introduces a small microprocessor driven device called ABLA (Advanced Brake-Light Activator) which causes the brake-lights to go on as soon as the accelerator is released. This device has the added advantage of being able to be installed during the vehicle's normal assembly process and can likewise be retro-fitted on millions of vehicles presently on the road. Furthermore, the new configuration introduces two additional road-safety features: parallel electric circuits to activate the vehicle's brake-lights, and the standard of automatically activated brake-lights whenever a vehicle is temporarily stopped in traffic.