In-Cab Virtual Coaching With Selective Alerts for Risky Driving
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing alert systems in vehicles cause alert fatigue due to excessive notifications, leading to desensitization and reduced effectiveness in improving driver safety, while coaching sessions lack real-time feedback to address unsafe driving behaviors.
Innovation Solution
Implement a system that uses virtual coaching sessions combined with selective alert generation, where drivers are provided with video recordings of risky driving events and real-time alerts if they fail to improve, balancing educational feedback with immediate warnings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional alert systems are used to inform drivers of unsafe driving behavior, then driver safety awareness is improved, but alert fatigue and desensitization occur due to excessive notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides virtual coaching sessions with video recordings of risky driving events before actual unsafe incidents occur. By showing drivers their own past risky behaviors and providing educational content in advance, the system prepares drivers to recognize and avoid similar situations, reducing the need for frequent alerts and preventing alert fatigue while maintaining safety awareness
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback loop where drivers receive coaching based on their driving behavior, then subsequent alerts are adjusted based on whether they improved. The system monitors continued risky behavior and only escalates to real-time alerts when coaching is insufficient, creating adaptive feedback that reduces unnecessary notifications while maintaining effective warnings
2Loss of information
If coaching sessions are provided to educate drivers on safe driving behavior, then driver education is improved, but real-time feedback capability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts its approach based on driver response to coaching. Initially, drivers receive educational video content asynchronously. The system then monitors whether risky behavior persists, and dynamically transitions to synchronous real-time alerts when improvement is insufficient. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to provide education when needed while maintaining real-time responsiveness when safety is at risk
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses periodic assessment of driver behavior to determine when to switch between coaching mode and alert mode. Rather than continuously providing both education and real-time alerts, the system periodically evaluates driver improvement and alternates between asynchronous coaching sessions and synchronous warnings, optimizing both education and real-time feedback delivery
Data Source
AI summary
A computing device of a vehicle and/or a remote computing device may generate a driving score tor a driver based on risky or unsafe driving behavior the driver engages in. The computing device can generate a driving score for the driver and monitor the driver over time to adjust or update the driving score. Tire computing device can initiate virtual coaching sessions in which the driver can access videos of tire driver engaging in. risky driving behavior to see when the risky driving behavior occurred. The computing device can determine whether the driver improved based on the driving score and/or determine whether the driver interacted with the 2024/186657 virtual coaching sessions. Responsive to determining the driver did not improve and/or interact with the virtual coaching sessions, the computing device can subsequently instruct the vehicle to generate alerts when the driver engages in similar risky driving behavior. WO