Autonomous Driving Benefit Tracking Interface

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current autonomous driving systems lack the ability to provide users with data on the benefits of autonomous driving, such as efficiency and safety metrics, making it difficult for users to understand and appreciate the advantages of this technology.

Innovation Solution

A user interface is developed within the vehicle that logs and displays trip data, including time in autonomous and manual modes, safety benefits, and efficiency metrics, using sensors and systems to record and communicate driving behaviors and responses, allowing users to analyze and visualize the benefits of autonomous driving over time.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If autonomous driving systems are implemented, then driver comfort and driving efficiency are improved, but users cannot determine or understand the actual benefits provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriving efficiencyVSAvoidbenefit information
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by capturing autonomous driving benefit information through sensors and processors, storing it in memory, and displaying it to users via a user interface. This creates a closed-loop feedback mechanism where the benefits of autonomous driving (such as safety metrics, efficiency gains, and comfort improvements) are continuously measured, stored, and presented to users, enabling them to understand and appreciate the value provided by the autonomous driving system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If data logging and display systems are added to show autonomous driving benefits, then user understanding is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebenefit informationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves multi-functionality by integrating multiple capabilities into a unified autonomous driving benefit information system. The same processor that controls autonomous driving functions also processes and analyzes benefit data. The memory storage serves both operational data and benefit information storage. The user interface displays both driving control information and benefit metrics. This universal approach allows the system to provide comprehensive benefit information without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10818110B2Methods and systems for providing a mixed autonomy vehicle trip summary
Publication Date: 2020.10.27 NIO TECH ANHUI CO LTD
  • US10818110B2 patent drawing
  • US10818110B2 patent drawing
  • US10818110B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A vehicle can produce a user interface that provides details about the autonomous driving benefits for a journey at the end of each trip and can keep a log of autonomous driving (AD) and manual driving (MD) history. The metrics that would be monitored and displayed may include one or more, but is not limited to, a time on the road, a time in traffic, money spent on electricity for a battery, a time in manual mode, a time in autonomous mode, multiple stops, hard accelerations, hard brakes, a time spent above the speed limit, routes taken, multiple stops along the way, regenerated energy, non-regenerated energy used, etc. The journey summary may include autonomous safety benefits that are unique to an AD vehicle.