Autonomous Vehicle Cost Segmentation for Standby Pricing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in determining whether to continue using an automatic driving vehicle or transfer to another vehicle at a stopover, leading to inconvenience in rental services.
Innovation Solution
An information processing system that acquires boarding requests, derives usage charges for both traveling and standby states, and outputs information including estimated costs, allowing users to compare continuous use versus transfer options based on estimated stay times and available parking locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the system provides detailed cost breakdown for standby state, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The usage charge is segmented into distinct components: traveling state cost and standby state cost. The deriver calculates these separately and presents them individually to the user, allowing clear comparison between continuous use and transfer options without requiring complex integrated calculations.
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing system acts as an intermediary that automatically performs the complex calculation of standby costs based on estimated stay time, then presents the results in a simplified format to the user, eliminating the need for users to perform complex calculations themselves.
2Measurement precision
If the system calculates usage charge based on estimated stay time, then pricing accuracy is improved, but information processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system obtains estimated stay time information in advance from the boarding request, before actually calculating the usage charge. This preliminary acquisition of time data allows the deriver to quickly compute the standby cost without delay during the charging process.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing system includes an acquirer configured to acquire a boarding request, a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on a boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state, and an output configured to output information including the usage charge derived by the deriver.