Cruising Speed Feedback Interface for Driver Behavior Coaching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Drivers face challenges in improving fuel economy and vehicle range due to uncertain cruising speed behavior, as existing technologies lack effective feedback mechanisms to guide them in optimizing powertrain and environmental factors.
Innovation Solution
A display control system and method that monitors vehicle acceleration, deceleration, and speed to provide real-time cruising speed feedback scores, using a controller and interface to adjust feedback indicators and adapt to driver behavior, ultimately improving driving habits and fuel efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If real-time feedback on cruising speed behavior is provided to drivers, then driving behavior and fuel efficiency are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The feedback system is segmented into multiple independent components: a controller that processes vehicle data, a display interface that presents information, and specific feedback indicators that show cruising speed scores. This modular segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive feedback while keeping each component relatively simple and manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary feedback indicator that mediates between the complex vehicle operating parameters and the driver's understanding. The cruising speed feedback gauge acts as a mediator, translating multiple vehicle parameters into a single, easy-to-understand score that guides driver behavior without requiring the driver to understand the underlying complexity.
2Measurement precision
If multiple vehicle parameters are monitored and processed, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the most relevant information from multiple vehicle parameters to generate the cruising speed feedback score. Instead of processing and displaying all available vehicle data, the controller identifies and extracts key parameters that most significantly impact fuel efficiency, converting them into a simplified feedback indicator that maintains measurement precision while reducing information loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms multiple vehicle parameters into a standardized cruising speed score through parameter changes. The controller normalizes and combines various vehicle operating parameters (speed, acceleration, deceleration) into a unified feedback metric, changing the parameter representation to make the information more manageable and less prone to loss during processing and display.
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AI summary
One or more embodiments of the present application may provide a system and method for monitoring driver inputs and vehicle parameters, assessing a driver's cruising speed behavior, and providing short-term and/or long-term feedback to the driver relating to the driver's cruising speed behavior. The cruising speed behavior feedback can be used to coach future cruising speed behavior that may translate into better long-term driving habits, which in turn may lead to improvements in fuel economy or vehicle range. Moreover, the cruising speed behavior feedback can be adapted to a driver based upon how responsive the driver is to the feedback.