Autonomous Vehicle Incident Coordination for Damage Recertification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous vehicles face challenges in managing incidents, including damage assessment, legal requirements, and recertification, which require efficient coordination between multiple entities and resources.
Innovation Solution
A network-based incident management system that includes an IM computing device communicating with vehicles, capable of analyzing sensor and sub-system data to determine incident responses, identifying relevant parties, and transmitting critical data for incident management and recertification processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual coordination is used for incident management and recertification, then flexibility and human judgment are maintained, but significant time and resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically notifying relevant parties (emergency services, repair facilities, insurance companies, manufacturers) immediately upon incident detection, and pre-coordinates recovery and recertification steps before they are actually needed, thereby reducing overall response time and resource coordination overhead
Solution Approach 2:
The incident management system acts as an intermediary platform that automatically coordinates between multiple entities (vehicle, emergency services, repair facilities, insurance companies, manufacturers, regulatory agencies), eliminating the need for manual coordination and significantly reducing the time and resources required for incident response and vehicle recertification
2Reliability
If comprehensive data collection and coordination between multiple entities is performed, then complete incident management and recertification is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The incident management system performs multiple functions through a single integrated platform: incident detection, data collection, party identification, notification, coordination, and recertification tracking. This multi-functional approach ensures comprehensive incident management while avoiding the complexity of multiple separate systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically collecting incident data from vehicle sensors, identifying relevant parties based on incident type, notifying them of the incident, and tracking recertification progress without requiring manual intervention, thereby reducing coordination complexity while maintaining completeness
Data Source
AI summary
An incident management system for managing an incident response may be provided. The incident management system may include an incident management (IM) computing device and a vehicle. The IM computing device may include a processor and memory, the processor may be programmed to receive a notification that an incident has occurred, the notification including sensor data and sub-system data. The processor may analyze the data to determine an incident response, the determination including categorizing the incident based on damage determined from the data. The processor may also identify a responding party based on the incident response and the category of the incident. The processor may further parse the data to generate a set of critical data. The critical data may be based on the responding party. The processor may transmit a message to the responding party including the critical data and the location of the vehicle.