Automated Driving Intervention via Scenario Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current vehicle safety technologies (VSTs) are ineffective in deterring certain risky driving behaviors and unsuited for specific driving scenarios, as they fail to account for individual driver habits and context, leading to continued vehicle accidents.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method that receives a data stream of driving factors, compares them to known factors to identify scenarios, monitors for risks, and generates personalized interventions such as visual, audio, or tactile notifications to mitigate risks, using machine learning and pattern recognition to adapt interventions based on driver reactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If standardized vehicle safety technologies are used, then basic safety coverage is provided, but effectiveness is reduced due to inability to adapt to individual driver habits and specific driving scenarios

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety effectivenessVSAvoidadaptation to driver habits
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts safety interventions based on real-time analysis of driver behavior patterns and current driving scenarios. The intervention strategy changes from static, one-size-fits-all approaches to dynamic, personalized responses that evolve with the driver's habits and the specific contextual situation, thereby resolving the contradiction between standardized safety coverage and adaptive effectiveness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system modifies intervention parameters such as alert timing, notification intensity, and intervention type based on analyzed driver behavior patterns and scenario characteristics. By changing these parameters dynamically rather than applying fixed thresholds, the system achieves both reliable safety intervention and adaptability to individual drivers

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If personalized interventions are implemented, then safety effectiveness is improved, but system complexity increases due to data processing and adaptive algorithms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesafety effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically analyzes driver behavior patterns and generates personalized intervention strategies without requiring manual configuration or complex external processing. The autonomous nature of the system reduces operational complexity while maintaining high safety effectiveness through self-adaptation to individual drivers

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors driver responses to interventions and uses this feedback to refine and adjust intervention strategies. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the system to learn from actual driver behavior and improve effectiveness over time without requiring complex manual reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10276045B2Automated intervention to modify driving behaviors
Publication Date: 2019.04.30 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A computer-implemented method includes receiving a data stream, the data stream including one or more driving factors. The computer-implemented method further includes comparing the one or more driving factors to one or more known driving factors to identify a driving scenario. The computer-implemented method further includes monitoring the driving scenario for a risk. Monitoring the driving scenario for a risk further includes detecting the risk. The computer-implemented method further includes generating an intervention, wherein the intervention is generated based on detecting the risk for the driving scenario. A corresponding computer system and computer program product are also disclosed.