METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A STATE OF A TRAILER BEING TOWED BY A VEHICLE

    公开(公告)号:US20200079164A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-12

    申请号:US16566165

    申请日:2019-09-10

    Abstract: A method operable in a towing vehicle for determining a state of a trailer being towed by said towing vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle comprises a front facing and a rear facing image capturing device and the method comprises determining respective distances of the rear facing image capturing device and the front facing image capturing device from a surface on which the vehicle lies. Responsive to one or both of: the distance of the rear image capturing device being outside a first threshold, and the distance of the front image capturing device being outside a second threshold, a value indicative the state of the towed trailer is output.

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