Post-Conflict Vehicle Negotiation to Limit Secondary Conflicts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle negotiation systems fail to address post-conflict safety hazards, or secondary conflicts, which are often caused by prior conflicts and pose significant risks to vehicles not directly involved in the primary conflict.
Innovation Solution
Implementing emergency post-conflict detection negotiations by predicting a geographic area to be avoided by vehicles not involved in the primary conflict, using ego vehicle sensors and communication systems to coordinate maneuvers with nearby vehicles to minimize exposure to secondary conflicts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If vehicle negotiation systems coordinate maneuvers to resolve primary conflicts, then conflict resolution efficiency is improved, but post-conflict safety hazards (secondary conflicts) are not addressed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting conflicts and generating geographic area predictions before secondary conflicts can occur. The negotiation system proactively coordinates maneuvers with nearby vehicles based on predicted conflict zones, preventing secondary conflicts before they happen rather than reacting after they occur.
Solution Approach 2:
The geographic area prediction acts as an intermediary element between the primary conflict detection and the negotiation system. This intermediate representation of the conflict zone enables the negotiation system to communicate safety hazards to nearby vehicles, bridging the gap between conflict detection and safety prevention.
2Reliability
If the system predicts geographic areas and initiates negotiations with nearby vehicles, then exposure to secondary conflicts is minimized, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the safety function into distinct modules: conflict detection, geographic area prediction, and negotiation initiation. This segmentation allows each module to handle a specific aspect of safety, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable while providing comprehensive protection against secondary conflicts.
Solution Approach 2:
The negotiation system is designed to handle multiple functions: detecting conflicts, predicting geographic areas, identifying nearby vehicles, and coordinating maneuvers. By making the system universal and multi-functional, the patent reduces the need for separate specialized systems, thereby managing complexity while providing comprehensive safety coverage.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for initiation of emergency post-conflict detection negotiations by a vehicle involved in a primary conflict with nearby vehicles. Examples include detecting a conflict involving an ego vehicle, determining a trajectory of the ego vehicle for a time period after detecting the conflict, predicting a geographic area occupied by the trajectory of the ego vehicle for the time period, identifying one or more remote vehicles adjacent to the geographic area, and initiating negotiations with the identified one or more remote vehicles that reserves the geographic area for the detected conflict and the determined trajectory.