Abstract: This invention is a rideshare safety system that utilizes ridesharing passenger and driver mobile devices to record, store, and transmit emergency information, including location data, video from the front and rear cameras, and communications from the rideshare passenger and driver mobile devices to third-party user mobile devices, and stores the emergency information on a central server. The third-party user interface displays the video for monitoring by the third-party user. This invention facilitates the transmission of emergency information from the passenger and driver to third-party users and emergency responders.

Abstract: A vehicle control system having a controller and a spatial database adapted to provide spatial data to the controller at control speed. The spatial data provided from the spatial database to the controller can be any kind of data or information that has some relationship or association with “real world” geographical location, or if it is stored somehow with reference to geographical location. The spatial data received by the controller from the database forms at least part of the control inputs that the controller operates on to control the vehicle. The fact that the controller operates directly on information that is inherently associated with “real world” geographic location represents a change in thinking compared with existing vehicle control systems. In particular, it means that the control system of the present invention “thinks” directly in terms of spatial location.

Abstract: The present invention relates to vehicle guidance software for use with an agricultural vehicle having a guidance system. The software includes a processing portion (24) for generating a set of guidance indicators from a set of waypoints. The software further includes an adapting portion (26) for analyzing the guidance indicators produced by the processing portion (24) and determining whether the guidance indicators define a path that cannot be traversed by the vehicle due to its minimum turning radius. In the event that a path cannot be traversed by the vehicle the adaptive portion (26) generates a set of alternative guidance indicators that define a path that is traversable by the vehicle.

Abstract: A soil cultivating apparatus including a tractor towing a row cultivator by means of a three-point linkage. The row cultivator includes a fixed portion and a moveable portion having soil scarifying tools. The movable portion is laterally moveable relative to the fixed portion by means of linkages and is effected by a hydraulic actuator under control of tool bar control systems which is able to determine the position of the moveable portion relative to the fixed portion by means of a sensor. Mounted upon the moveable potion is a DGPS antenna GPS receiver that forms part of the control system. The control system has a microprocessor which operatively executes a stored program. The microprocessor receives data from an intra-rig sensor and from the GPS receiver specifying the absolute coordinate of the movable portion relative to the earth.

Abstract: There is disclosed a guidance assisting apparatus for aiding in the guidance of an agricultural vehicle (5) over arable land. The apparatus makes use of a GPS positional receiver (81) in order to determine if the vehicle (5) is overlapping previous passes of a paddock thereby reducing the likelihood of strips of land being double processed or left unprocessed. Guidance may be provided by a visual display or by power assisted steering.