Passenger Device Driver Safety Score Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for monitoring and rating driver safety are primarily hosted on the driver's device or in the car and do not provide data to passengers or their guardians, leaving a gap in assessing the safety of drivers, especially for inexperienced or unknown drivers.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows passenger devices to uniquely identify the driver and/or vehicle and retrieve a driver safety score based on data observed by other passenger devices, using sensors like microphones, cameras, and near field communication, and perform security actions such as alerting guardians if the score is below a threshold.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If driver safety monitoring systems are hosted on the driver's device or in the car, then the system can collect driving data, but the data is not accessible to passengers or their guardians
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that receives driver safety data from the driver's device or vehicle system, processes it to generate safety scores, and makes it accessible to passenger devices. This mediator architecture allows information to flow from the driver monitoring system to passengers without requiring direct integration between all devices, thus improving data accessibility while managing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is divided into separate functional modules: a driver monitoring component that collects data, a server component that processes and stores safety scores, and a passenger device component that retrieves and displays information. This segmentation allows each component to operate independently, improving overall system accessibility without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Measurement precision
If ride-sharing apps provide driver ratings, then passengers can see driver information, but the pressure to always provide perfect ratings means poor drivers may still have high ratings
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically collects driving behavior data through sensors and monitoring systems in the vehicle, and the server automatically processes this data to generate safety scores without requiring manual input from passengers. This automated self-service approach eliminates the subjectivity and pressure of manual rating while maintaining assessment accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The server continuously monitors driving behavior and provides real-time or near-real-time feedback in the form of safety scores to passengers. This continuous feedback loop replaces periodic manual ratings with ongoing objective assessment, improving measurement precision while simplifying the process for passengers.
3Loss of information
If traditional driver monitoring systems collect driving behavior data, then safety information is available, but it is not provided to passengers or passengers' adult guardians
Solution Approach 1:
The server is designed as a universal platform that serves multiple functions: collecting data from driver monitoring systems, processing safety scores, storing information, and distributing it to various types of users including passengers and guardians. This multi-functional approach improves information sharing without requiring separate specialized systems for each user type.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method for retrieving driver safety scores by passenger devices may include (i) determining that an operator of a mobile device is a passenger in a vehicle, (ii) gathering, via one or more sensors of the mobile device, identifying information about at least one of the vehicle and a current driver of the vehicle, (iii) identifying, based on the identifying information gathered by the one or more sensors of the mobile device, the current driver of the vehicle, (iv) retrieving a driver safety score for the current driver of the vehicle from a collection of driver safety scores, and (v) performing, by the mobile device, a security action in response to retrieving the driver safety score. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.