Sensor Design Features
Patented IR Laser array technology*
Accurate time of flight range
resolution
Stationary object filtering
All-weather performance
Onboard diagnostic

Future Design Features
Dirty lens detection and warning
LAN communication

Sensor Specifications
Detection accuracy: +/- 15cm on
boundary
Response time: 50 ms
Number of beams: 6-7
Sensor range: 0.6-8.0 m (adjustable)
Mass: 90 g per sensor

Visual Display Methods
In rearview mirrors
Vehicle cab interior

  

SideEyes® provides the driver with information about vehicles and objects residing within the vehicles “blind spots”. Detection zones are created by an array of infrared lasers which can be custom configured by vehicle type (cars, trucks, and recreational vehicles) to provide optimized object detection for safer driving.

  Why SideEyes? Total Side Crashes in USA
 

Significantly lower cost than comparable technologies

Straight forward integration into vehicle reduces time and cost of implementation; dealer retrofit is an option

Sensing performance comparable with radar and is an excellent supplement to vision systems

Trico Electronics and Lang Mekra North America have excellent reputations with OE customers for product quality

The small print:
NOTE*: U.S. Patent # 6,377,167, #6,201,236, #5,675,326, #5,463,384, #5,418,359, #5,354,983, #5,311,012, #5,122,796, #4,926,170, #4,766,421, 4 additional pending

WARNING: This system is not designed as a substitute for the driver to look to the side and rear of the vehicle, to observe vehicles. Its function is limited to supplemental use only. Trico has no intent to sell or manufacture the displays as configured in this test vehicle.

*Source data from: Automotive Collision Avoidance
Systems (ACAS) Program. NHTSA, August 2000, USDOT,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Nat’l. Transportation
Statistics 2002, BTS02-08, Washington DC Gov’t. Printing
Office, December 2002

Lang Mekra North America and Trico Electronics have joined forces to bring you SideEyes, the latest in Side Object Detection technology. Please contact either company for additional information.


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