Infrastructure Articles Adapting to Scooter Operator Proficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electric scooters face safety risks due to differences in operator proficiency, as they share roadways with vehicles and pedestrians, with existing infrastructure being agnostic to the operator's skill level, leading to potential accidents.
Innovation Solution
Infrastructure articles, such as pavement markings, are configured to receive wireless signals from scooters that encode operator proficiency data, allowing them to adjust operations based on the rider's experience, thereby enhancing safety by providing tailored feedback or alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If infrastructure articles are configured to receive and process wireless signals encoding operator proficiency data, then safety is improved by providing tailored feedback, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A computing device acts as an intermediary between the scooter operator and the infrastructure article. The computing device receives wireless signals from the scooter containing operator proficiency data, processes this information, and then communicates with the infrastructure article to trigger appropriate responses. This intermediary approach allows the infrastructure to respond to operator proficiency without requiring the infrastructure article itself to be highly complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback loop where the infrastructure article receives information about operator proficiency and provides tailored feedback or alerts back to the operator. This feedback mechanism enhances safety by allowing less proficient operators to receive additional warnings or guidance, while more proficient operators receive standard infrastructure responses.
2Reliability
If infrastructure articles adapt operations based on operator proficiency data, then safety is enhanced through tailored feedback, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential operator proficiency data from wireless signals transmitted by the scooter. Rather than processing all possible scooter data, the infrastructure focuses specifically on operator proficiency metrics, which are then used to determine appropriate safety responses. This selective extraction reduces the information processing load on infrastructure articles.
3Device complexity
If existing infrastructure remains agnostic to operator skill level, then device complexity is minimized, but safety is compromised due to inability to provide tailored responses
Solution Approach 1:
The infrastructure system transitions from a static, one-size-fits-all approach to a dynamic response system that adapts its behavior based on real-time operator proficiency data. The infrastructure article can modify its operational characteristics, such as triggering different visual or audible alerts, adjusting signal timing, or providing additional safety information, depending on the assessed proficiency level of the operator.
Data Source
AI summary
An infrastructure article includes a signal receiver device configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal emitter device configured at an electrically powered scooter; and a controller configured to determine information, coded in the wireless signal, that is based on an operator proficiency of an operator of the electrically powered scooter; and to perform, based at least in part on the information that indicates the operator proficiency of the operator of the electrically powered scooter, at least one operation.