Augmented Reality Vehicle Location and Privacy System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Peer-to-peer vehicle sharing systems face challenges in accommodating users' preferred settings and efficiently locating shared vehicles, leading to a degraded user experience due to variability in vehicle types and features, as well as privacy concerns when secondary users access primary users' settings.
Innovation Solution
An augmented reality application on user devices, connected to a central server, provides location indicators and familiarizes users with rental vehicle features, while maintaining privacy by hiding primary users' settings and adapting to secondary users' preferences, using a driver-specific profile system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If peer-to-peer vehicle sharing is implemented with high variability in vehicle availability, then flexibility and cost-effectiveness are improved, but user experience deteriorates due to significant differences in vehicle features and operation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by providing augmented reality instructions to users before they physically interact with the rental vehicle. The AR application displays feature locations and operational instructions in advance, allowing users to mentally prepare and understand vehicle operations before actually using the vehicle, thereby resolving the contradiction between vehicle variability and ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If primary users' preferred settings are made accessible to secondary users, then ease of operation is improved, but privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing different information access levels to different users. Primary users have full access to their preferred settings and vehicle features, while secondary users receive only the specific AR instructions and feature locations relevant to their rental period. This differentiated information delivery resolves the contradiction between settings accessibility and privacy protection.
3Device complexity
If users must remember vehicle locations and features in peer-to-peer sharing, then device complexity is reduced, but time consumption increases due to locating and relearning vehicle operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces the mechanical memory-based approach with an augmented reality information delivery system. Instead of relying on users to remember vehicle locations and operations, the AR application visually overlays feature locations and operational instructions directly onto the user's field of view, eliminating the need for memorization and significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining system simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
A selection for a shared vehicle is received. Whether the shared vehicle is in view of a user device camera is determined. At least one of directions to the shared vehicle are provided to the user device. Data of the shared vehicle are identified.