Autonomous Chauffeur Scheduling From Calendar-Driven Ride Requests
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current transportation methods, including personal vehicles and public transit, require significant user planning and input for trips to and from events, lacking seamless integration with digital calendars, and autonomous vehicles still necessitate user input for pick-up and drop-off locations and times.
Innovation Solution
Integrating ridehail applications with users' digital calendars to autonomously generate and manage ride requests for calendar events, allowing for zero-touch, around-the-clock chauffeur services by determining locations and scheduling rides without user input, using real-time traffic and vehicle dispatch data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If autonomous vehicles are used to provide rides, then transportation convenience is improved, but user input for pick-up and drop-off locations and times is still required
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating ride requests in advance based on calendar event data. The ridehail application proactively creates pick-up and drop-off requests before the user needs them, using event location and time information already stored in the calendar, thereby eliminating the need for manual user input at the time of travel.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing the autonomous vehicle service to automatically manage the entire ride-request process. The application autonomously determines pick-up locations, drop-off locations, and timing based on calendar event data, and automatically transmits ride requests to the autonomous vehicle fleet without requiring user intervention.
2Productivity
If users manually plan transportation to events, then trip details can be controlled, but time and effort for planning are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs trip planning actions in advance by automatically generating ride requests when calendar events are created or updated. The ridehail application proactively determines pick-up and drop-off details before the user needs to travel, eliminating the need for last-minute planning and reducing the time users spend on transportation arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from calendar event data to automatically adjust and optimize ride requests. The application continuously monitors calendar events and uses this information to proactively create and modify ride requests, ensuring that transportation plans are always up-to-date without requiring user intervention.
3Adaptability or versatility
If ridehail services are integrated with digital calendars, then seamless transportation is achieved, but system integration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by designing the ridehail application to work with multiple calendar platforms and event types. The application can integrate with various digital calendar systems (Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc.) and handle different event formats, making the seamless integration capability broadly applicable across different user environments without requiring separate solutions for each calendar system.
4Extent of automation
If autonomous vehicles appear automatically without user input, then user interaction is reduced, but automation extent must be increased
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables zero-touch operation by allowing the autonomous vehicle service to completely autonomously manage the ride-request process. The application automatically generates ride requests, determines pick-up and drop-off locations and times based on calendar event data, and transmits requests to the autonomous vehicle fleet without requiring any user input or interaction, achieving maximum automation while maintaining ease of use.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for providing autonomous chauffeur services. In particular, systems and methods are provided to integrate users' calendars with a ridehail application to provide personal chauffeur-type services. Integrating a ridehail service application with a user's calendar and online schedule enables the ridehail service to act as a personal around-the-clock chauffeur, with an autonomous vehicle appearing when needed and taking the user to their destination with no additional input.