Abstracted Driver Profile Translation Across Vehicles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Drivers face inconvenience and inefficiency due to the need to repeatedly adjust vehicle settings each time they enter a vehicle, as existing systems do not effectively utilize driver profiles to automate setting adjustments across different vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that stores a driver's profile, including abstracted vehicle setting data, which is converted into specific setting values for each vehicle, allowing these values to be automatically applied through a vehicle control module without manual adjustment, using a combination of user devices, cloud databases, and vehicle control modules to identify vehicles and apply settings based on driver profiles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If vehicle settings are manually adjusted each time a driver enters a vehicle, then the driver can have personalized settings for each vehicle, but this process consumes time and causes driver inconvenience
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting when a driver is approaching or about to enter a vehicle, automatically retrieves the driver's profile information, and pre-configures the vehicle settings before the driver actually enters. This eliminates the need for manual adjustment and saves time while maintaining personalized settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically matching drivers with their preferred vehicle settings without requiring manual intervention. The driver profile is automatically retrieved and applied based on vehicle identification, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring the driver to manually adjust each setting.
2Adaptability or versatility
If driver profiles are stored in a centralized cloud database, then settings can be accessed across multiple vehicles, but this requires complex data transmission and processing infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary approach by introducing a server that acts as a mediator between the driver's mobile device and the vehicle. The server receives vehicle identification information, retrieves the corresponding driver profile from the cloud database, and transmits the appropriate settings to the vehicle control module, simplifying the overall system architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based driver profile database provides universal access to driver settings across multiple different vehicles. The same profile can be retrieved and applied to any vehicle in the fleet, making the system versatile and adaptable to various vehicle types without requiring separate storage systems for each vehicle.
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AI summary
A driver may provide preferred vehicle setting data to a system through a user interface or the system may detect the preferred driver vehicle setting data by communicating with a particular vehicle. The preferred vehicle setting data may be generalized/abstracted so that the data is not specific to any one vehicle. When the driver sits in any vehicle, the system may identify the type of vehicle and translate the abstracted driver vehicle setting data to driver vehicle setting data that is particular to the identified vehicle.