Emergency Vehicle Parking via External Database Queries

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current vehicle safety systems lack the ability to utilize real-time external data for optimal vehicle parking, especially in emergency situations, and do not efficiently communicate with rescue centers or other vehicles to ensure safe and quick parking.

Innovation Solution

A method that queries external databases for current traffic, weather, and roadside information, using vehicle-to-vehicle communication to identify and respond to driver fatigue, health, or technical issues, and automatically parks the vehicle by integrating data from sensors and digital maps to select a safe stopping location, while transmitting critical information to rescue centers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the vehicle is automatically slowed down and moved to the right-hand side of the road upon detecting driver health deterioration, then road safety is improved, but the system lacks real-time external data for optimal parking location selection

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveroad safetyVSAvoidreal-time external data
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an external database as an intermediary component that stores and provides real-time information about roadside conditions, traffic situations, and weather data. This database acts as a mediator between the driver monitoring system and the parking decision-making process, enabling the system to access current external data without directly complicating the core safety monitoring function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary queries to the external database before making parking decisions. By proactively retrieving information about suitable parking locations, road conditions, and traffic situations in advance, the system prepares optimal parking strategies before an emergency situation fully develops, ensuring safer and more informed parking actions when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the driver assistance system accesses and processes data from external databases and multiple sensors, then parking safety is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveparking safetyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The driver assistance system is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a driver health monitor and as an intelligent parking decision-making system. By integrating multiple functions into a single system rather than creating separate dedicated systems, the patent reduces overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive safety capabilities.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The patent merges the driver monitoring functions with the parking control functions into a unified driver assistance system. Additionally, it combines data from multiple sources (sensors, external databases, digital maps) into a single integrated decision-making process, reducing the number of separate systems and interfaces that would otherwise be needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Loss of time

If the system quickly detects and responds to emergency situations, then response time is improved, but the accuracy of detecting driver fatigue and health issues may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse timeVSAvoiddetection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors driver health parameters and compares them against threshold values stored in the system before actual emergencies occur. By pre-establishing detection criteria and continuously evaluating driver status, the system can quickly identify when thresholds are exceeded without needing to perform complex analysis during the actual emergency response, thus maintaining both speed and accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP2780184B1Method for safely parking a vehicle in an emergency situation
Publication Date: 2019.08.14 ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
  • EP2780184B1 patent drawingFigure 1~2

AI summary

The invention relates to a processor unit and to a method for safely parking a vehicle, wherein it is checked whether an emergency situation is present, wherein, after an emergency situation is detected, a driver assistance system drives the vehicle to a roadside, characterized in that items of information from an external database are queried and taken into consideration by the driver assistance system.