Coordinated Transportation System for Shared Cabin Experience
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Solution Overview
Problem
Long trips in caravans can lead to restlessness and diminished social interaction among passengers in separate vehicles, as personal devices may not provide a cohesive shared environment for mutual support and entertainment.
Innovation Solution
A coordinated transportation system that allows vehicles to register and connect with each other, enabling the sharing of functions such as music, seat haptics, lighting, and video displays through transceivers and processors, creating a synchronized cabin experience across multiple vehicles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If passengers use personal devices for entertainment during long trips, then individual entertainment needs are met, but a cohesive shared environment for mutual support is diminished
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate vehicle entertainment systems into a unified caravan network, allowing music, videos, and games to be shared across all vehicles. This merging creates a cohesive shared environment while maintaining individual vehicle autonomy, resolving the contradiction between personal entertainment and social interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The entertainment system is designed to provide multiple functions including music playback, video display, interactive games, and communication across all vehicles in the caravan. This universal system serves both individual entertainment needs and group social interaction, eliminating the need for separate personal devices.
2Reliability
If vehicles travel in a caravan formation, then mutual support is provided, but passengers may become restless or impatient during long trips
Solution Approach 1:
The entertainment system provides continuous engagement across all vehicles in the caravan through synchronized music playback, sequential video displays, and ongoing interactive games. This continuous useful action keeps passengers engaged and reduces restlessness during long trips while maintaining the caravan's mutual support structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements periodic entertainment sequences where different vehicles take turns displaying content or leading activities, creating varied engagement patterns that maintain passenger interest throughout the journey while preserving the caravan's coordinated movement and mutual support.
3Ease of operation
If multiple vehicles are connected for a shared cabin experience, then passenger engagement is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The entertainment system is segmented into modular units within each vehicle that can independently function while connecting to the broader caravan network. This segmentation allows easy addition or removal of vehicles without requiring complete system redesign, reducing overall complexity while maintaining high passenger engagement.
Solution Approach 2:
A central control system acts as an intermediary that coordinates entertainment content distribution and synchronization across all vehicles. This mediator manages the complexity of multi-vehicle integration by handling communication protocols and content routing, allowing individual vehicle systems to remain relatively simple.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a coordinated transportation system and methods thereof. More particularly, this disclosure describes a system where passengers within two or more vehicles may enjoy a shared cabin experience. This may include, but is not limited to, a selection of music, sound clip, seat haptic, seat positioning, speaker setting, interior or exterior lighting, image or video for display, and drive mode to be shared among the vehicles. Vehicle formations to enhance the shared cabin experience may be formed. Furthermore, a global positioning system (GPS) coordinate may be established by a lead vehicle to provide other vehicles with the experience after those vehicles pass that coordinate.