Cruise Control Status Detection for Fuel Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing number of motor vehicles and associated traffic congestion, accidents, and resource consumption necessitate a solution that promotes smoother driving habits to reduce fuel consumption and traffic jams, while existing technologies primarily focus on individual vehicle efficiency and safety.
Innovation Solution
A device for detecting the use of a vehicle's cruise control system, analyzing its status over time and road conditions to incentivize smooth driving, integrating with engine management for predictive control and providing incentives for consistent speed management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If cruise control system is used to maintain constant speed, then fuel consumption is reduced and traffic flow is smoothed, but driver control flexibility is reduced and ability to respond to changing traffic conditions is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors cruise control usage status and provides feedback through recording and evaluation mechanisms. The feedback loop tracks whether cruise control is active or inactive, enabling the system to incentivize appropriate usage patterns while maintaining driver awareness and control flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The evaluation system automatically monitors and records cruise control usage without requiring driver intervention. The system self-records the status, calculates evaluation results, and generates incentives autonomously, reducing the operational burden on the driver while promoting energy-efficient driving behavior.
2Productivity
If cruise control system is continuously monitored and recorded, then driving behavior can be evaluated and incentivized, but device complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential cruise control status information (active/inactive state) for recording and evaluation, rather than monitoring all vehicle parameters. This selective extraction simplifies the data processing requirements while still enabling meaningful driving behavior evaluation and incentive generation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms complex driving behavior data into simplified evaluation parameters by monitoring binary cruise control status states. This parameter transformation reduces data complexity while maintaining the capability to evaluate driving patterns and generate appropriate incentives over time or distance intervals.
3Stability of the object's composition
If cruise control usage is recorded over time and distance, then smooth driving patterns can be promoted, but information storage requirements and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system records cruise control status selectively based on predefined time or distance intervals rather than continuously monitoring every moment. This partial recording approach captures sufficient information to evaluate driving patterns and promote consistency while significantly reducing the volume of data that must be stored and processed.
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AI summary
A device (10) for a motor vehicle (12) for detecting the use of a cruise control system (14) of the motor vehicle (12), wherein the device (10) comprises a detection device (16) and a storage device (18), and wherein the detection device (16) is configured to detect a status of the cruise control system (14) and to store it in the storage device (18). The invention further relates to a motor vehicle (12) with such a device (10) and a method for detecting the device of a cruise control system (14) of a motor vehicle (12).