ADAS Alert Likelihood Tracking for Driver Reliance Risk

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in vehicles face issues due to varying driver reliance, leading to difficulties in accurately determining potential or actual risk with safety features, as drivers may become overly dependent on ADAS, resulting in unsafe driving behaviors and increased collision risks.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for detecting and acting upon deactivated ADAS components by analyzing driving behavior data, comparing historical data with real-time measurements, and determining a likelihood level for ADAS alerts, which sets an operator profile based on this analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If ADAS features are activated to assist driving, then driving safety is improved, but driver over-reliance develops leading to unsafe driving behaviors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving safetyVSAvoiddriver over-reliance and unsafe driving behaviors
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors driver behavior and ADAS usage patterns, then provides feedback by adjusting alert likelihood levels and updating operator profiles. This feedback loop helps identify and address over-reliance issues by comparing actual driver responses with expected responses when ADAS alerts are activated.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the likelihood level of ADAS alerts based on real-time analysis of driver behavior patterns and historical data. This dynamic adjustment ensures that alert probabilities remain accurate even as driver reliance on ADAS changes over time, preventing both false alarms and missed warnings.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If driver reliance on ADAS varies by individual, then personalized driving assistance is achieved, but accurate risk determination becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalized driving assistanceVSAvoidrisk determination accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments drivers into different operator profiles based on their individual reliance patterns on ADAS features. By dividing the driver population into distinct segments with characteristic behaviors, the system can apply tailored risk assessment criteria to each segment, improving both personalization and measurement precision simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes key parameters such as alert likelihood levels and risk thresholds based on the specific operator profile being assessed. By adjusting these parameters according to individual driver characteristics and historical behavior, the system maintains accurate risk determination while adapting to personalized driving patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If ADAS monitors traffic conditions and external environment continuously, then driving assistance quality is improved, but system complexity and energy consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving assistance qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and storing historical driving data and operator profile information before it is needed for real-time risk assessment. This preliminary preparation reduces the computational complexity during actual monitoring operations, as the system can reference pre-analyzed data rather than processing raw sensor data in real-time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12450667B2Automatically tracking driving activity
Publication Date: 2025.10.21 STATE FARM MUTAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
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AI summary

A system and computer-implemented method detect and act upon deactivated vehicle components. The system and method include receiving measurements data associated with driving activity. The measurements data includes an indication that at least one feature of an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) of a vehicle has been deactivated for a driving activity. The system and method may include receiving historical driving data including a history of at least one driving activity aided by activation of the alert from the ADAS feature. The system and method may compare the measurements data to the historical driving data, determine a likelihood level that the feature of the ADAS would have provided the alert had the feature been activated based upon the comparing, and set, based at least upon the determining, at least a portion of an operator profile associated with an operator of the vehicle with the likelihood level.