Vehicle Driving Style Warning Using Past Driver Operation Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Different drivers depress the accelerator and brake pedals in unique manners, leading to discomfort for vehicle occupants due to differences in driving styles.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle control device with a warning system that compares current driver operations to past driver data, providing warnings when deviations exceed thresholds, thereby adjusting driving style to match past drivers' patterns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the system stores and compares past driver operation data with current driver operations, then the comfort of vehicle occupants is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a copy of past driver operation data (accelerator and brake pedal operations) stored in memory, then compares this copied data with current driver operations to generate warnings. This copying approach enables comfort improvement without requiring complex real-time learning algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously comparing current driver operations against stored past operation patterns and providing warnings when deviations exceed thresholds. This feedback mechanism helps align current driving behavior with past patterns, improving occupant comfort through automated guidance.
2Reliability
If the system provides frequent warnings when operation deviations exceed thresholds, then the alignment of driving style with past patterns is improved, but the driver may experience annoyance or distraction
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies partial action by providing warnings only when deviations exceed a predetermined threshold, rather than continuously monitoring all variations. This selective warning approach maintains reliability for significant deviations while avoiding unnecessary driver distraction from minor variations.
Solution Approach 2:
The warning system dynamically adjusts its behavior based on the degree of deviation from past operation patterns. By making the warning threshold adaptable and context-dependent, the system maintains reliable driving style alignment while minimizing harmful driver distraction through intelligent warning timing.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle control device mountable on a vehicle includes a warning device that warns a current driver of the vehicle, and a control system including a processor and a memory that are communicably coupled. The control system obtains, a numerical value indicating an acceleration operation and/or a deceleration operation for each past driver of the vehicle, and the numerical value as past operation data. When an occupant other than the current driver matches any past driver, the control system sets the past operation data of the any past driver as reference data. The control system obtains a numerical value indicating an acceleration operation and/or a deceleration operation by the current driver as current operation data, and controls the warning device to warn the current driver when the current operation data deviates from the reference data by an amount more than a warning threshold.