Driver Interactive System for Semi-Autonomous Feature Training
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Solution Overview
Problem
Drivers of semi-autonomous vehicles face difficulties in understanding the operation, usage scenarios, and limitations of semi-autonomous features, leading to potential misuse and inadequate awareness of when to take control of the vehicle.
Innovation Solution
A driver interactive system that uses a feature tracker to identify drivers, retrieve their profiles, and provide audiovisual training on activated semi-autonomous features, ensuring drivers receive necessary training before using these features, with options for multiple levels of training and alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If semi-autonomous features are added to vehicles to assist driver control, then vehicle automation capability is improved, but driver understanding and awareness of feature operation and limitations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides training information to the driver before the driver activates semi-autonomous features. The processor identifies when a driver has not yet been trained on a particular feature and presents training information through the infotainment system, ensuring drivers understand feature operation, usage scenarios, and limitations before use.
Solution Approach 2:
The system tracks driver training status and provides feedback by presenting training information when activation is detected without prior training. The processor monitors which features have been activated and whether the driver has received training, dynamically providing educational content to bridge knowledge gaps.
2Reliability
If comprehensive training on semi-autonomous features is provided to all drivers, then driver awareness and safety are improved, but system complexity and training time increase
Solution Approach 1:
Training information is made available in advance through the infotainment system before drivers need to use features. Drivers can familiarize themselves with training materials at their own pace, reducing the complexity of real-time instruction and allowing the system to simply retrieve and display pre-prepared training content when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
Drivers access training information through the infotainment system at their own initiative or when prompted by the system. The driver identification sensor and processor work together to provide self-directed training where drivers can learn about features without requiring external instruction, reducing the burden on the system to manage complex training sequences.
3Device complexity
If training information is provided only after feature activation, then system simplicity is maintained, but driver safety and proper usage deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system proactively identifies when a driver has not received training on a feature and presents training information before the driver attempts to use the feature. The processor detects activation attempts and intercepts them to provide necessary training first, ensuring safety without requiring complex post-activation training sequences.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate feedback when a driver attempts to activate a feature without prior training. The processor detects the lack of training status and automatically triggers training information delivery, creating a simple feedback loop that ensures safety without adding complex training management infrastructure.
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AI summary
Method and apparatus are disclosed for a driver interactive system for semi-autonomous modes of a vehicle. An example disclosed vehicle with semiautonomous features includes memory and a processor. The example processor causes the vehicle to determine, with a driver identification sensor, the identity of a driver. The example processor also causes the vehicle to determine which semiautonomous features are flagged for training based on a driver profile of the identified driver. Additionally, the example processor causes the vehicle to, in response to the driver activating one of the flagged semiautonomous features, provide an audiovisual description of the semiautonomous feature.