VEHICLE WITH AN ORIENTATIONALLY FLEXIBLE BUMP SENSOR AND METHOD FOR CALIBRATING SAID SENSOR

A vehicle (50) comprising an orientationally flexible bump sensor (35f, 35r), which orientationally flexible bump sensor comprises:at least one bump sensor mounted to said vehicle, said at least one bump sensor comprising at least two axes of measurement; anda computer processor configured to:evaluate said at least two axes of measurement to determine which axis of said at least two axes of measurement has a highest magnitude vector;determine a gain value to cause said highest magnitude vector to be approximately lg; andassign said gain value to said axis with said highest magnitude vector, such that said gain value is applied to each measurement generated by said axis with said highest magnitude vector.