Driver Coaching From Vehicle Event Detection and Auto Lessons

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for monitoring vehicle operation and providing driver feedback lack the ability to automatically generate and deliver personalized lessons based on real-time data, specifically targeting drivers who frequently engage in extreme driving events such as excessive braking or lane departure, which can lead to improved driving performance.

Innovation Solution

An app-based system that collects and processes data from vehicles, using sensors and cameras to detect events, and generates personalized lessons for drivers by analyzing pre- and post-event data to provide video, text, and narration, focusing on specific environments and circumstances where the driver's mistakes occur, with the goal of improving their driving habits.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual review and creation of training materials is used, then lesson quality and relevance are improved, but time consumption and resource requirements increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelesson qualityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic generation of training lessons by having the data processing system autonomously analyze event data, identify patterns, create lesson content, and deliver personalized lessons to drivers without requiring manual intervention for each lesson creation process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates simplified representations of complex driving events by generating standardized lesson templates that capture essential patterns from multiple similar events, allowing efficient replication and distribution of training content across multiple drivers with similar issues

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Adaptability or versatility

If comprehensive data collection and analysis is performed, then lesson personalization and effectiveness are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelesson personalizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the complex data processing task into distinct modules: event detection module that identifies specific driving events, pattern recognition module that analyzes sequences of events, lesson generation module that creates personalized content, and delivery module that distributes lessons to appropriate drivers

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The data processing system performs multiple functions using a unified approach: it monitors various driving parameters, detects different types of events (excessive speed, harsh braking, rapid acceleration), analyzes patterns across all event types, and generates comprehensive personalized lessons that address multiple driving behaviors simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12073734B2Automatic teaching device
Publication Date: 2024.08.27 RM ACQUISITION LLC
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AI summary

A system and method for monitoring a driver's operation of a vehicle and automatically providing a lesson to a driver based on the driver's operation are provided. Input data generated by an onboard vehicle computing system specifying actions taken by the driver while operating the vehicle are received. Based on the input data, a determination is made whether a driving event has occurred that requires the lesson to be output to the driver. The driving event is analyzed based on threshold data stored in the memory, and based on the results of the analysis of the driving event one or more lessons are automatically output to the driver. Additionally, the driver's completion of the lesson can be monitored, and subsequent instances of the driver's operation of the vehicle may include controlling movement of the vehicle based on the results of the analysis of the driving event.