Autonomous Neighborhood Vehicle Delivery Network
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals face challenges in acquiring items due to lack of time, transportation access, and trust issues with home delivery services, leading to wasted time and money.
Innovation Solution
An autonomous neighborhood vehicle system that navigates through a network to deliver items, equipped with sensors for stability and navigation, temperature regulation, and emergency broadcasting capabilities, allowing for efficient and secure item delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If home delivery services are used to deliver items, then delivery convenience is improved, but trust and security issues worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an autonomous vehicle as an intermediary between the delivery service and the recipient. This autonomous vehicle acts as a trusted mediator that can securely transport items without requiring direct human interaction, thereby maintaining delivery convenience while addressing trust and security concerns through automated, transparent, and accountable delivery processes
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service delivery where the autonomous vehicle independently completes the delivery process without requiring human couriers. The vehicle autonomously navigates, secures items, and delivers them to designated locations, eliminating the need for recipients to interact with potentially untrusted delivery personnel while maintaining ease of use
2Ease of operation
If traditional transportation methods are used to acquire items, then transportation access is improved, but time consumption worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical transportation systems (human-driven vehicles, public transit) with an autonomous vehicle system. This substitution eliminates the need for recipients to personally operate or wait for traditional transportation, allowing items to be delivered automatically while recipients continue their activities, thereby reducing time consumption without compromising transportation access
Solution Approach 2:
The autonomous vehicle serves as an intermediary that handles the entire transportation process independently. It picks up items from source locations and delivers them to destinations without requiring recipient involvement in the transit phase, effectively decoupling transportation access from time consumption by automating the intermediary delivery function
3Reliability
If manual item pickup and delivery is performed, then item security is improved, but labor and time requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The autonomous vehicle performs self-service for item securement and delivery. It automatically secures items in its cargo compartment, navigates to destinations, and completes delivery without requiring human labor. This self-service capability maintains item security through controlled access and monitoring while dramatically improving productivity by eliminating manual labor and reducing delivery time
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual mechanical operations (human handling, securing, and transporting items) with an automated autonomous vehicle system. The vehicle uses automated mechanisms for item securement, navigation, and delivery, maintaining security through controlled access while improving productivity by operating continuously without human intervention and reducing overall labor requirements
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an autonomous neighborhood vehicle controllable through a neighborhood social network. In one embodiment, an autonomous neighborhood vehicle can autonomously navigate to a destination specified by a user of the neighborhood social network. In one embodiment, a computer system of the autonomous neighborhood vehicle is communicatively coupled to the neighborhood social network through a wireless network to autonomously navigate to a destination specified by the user of the neighborhood social network. A navigation server provides a remote sensing capability to the autonomous neighborhood vehicle. A particular user of a third-party application is authenticated as being a verified user of the neighborhood social network having a verified residential address. An information of the particular user is communicated to the third-party application from the neighborhood social network based on a personal address privacy preference of the particular user.