Remote Starter System for Safe Driving Enforcement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for encouraging safe driving behaviors, such as software applications that block text messages on mobile devices, are ineffective as they require voluntary launch and lack enforcement, and insurance providers face challenges in identifying the vehicle driver, leading to inefficient insurance coverage.
Innovation Solution
A remote vehicle starter system that communicates with a mobile application to restrict device usage during vehicle operation and identifies the driver, allowing personalized insurance rates based on driving behavior, enabling 'pay-as-you-drive' insurance by linking insurance coverage to individual drivers rather than vehicles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a remote starter device is used to control vehicle ignition, then driving behavior can be monitored and enforced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the remote starter device with telematics tracking and insurance rate determination into a single integrated system. The remote starter device not only controls ignition but also monitors driving behavior through telematics data and enforces safe driving through personalized insurance rates, merging multiple functions into one device to avoid the complexity of separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The remote starter device is designed to perform multiple functions: controlling vehicle ignition, monitoring driving behavior via telematics, communicating with mobile applications, and providing data for insurance rate determination. This multi-functionality allows a single device to address multiple aspects of safe driving enforcement without requiring separate specialized devices for each function.
2Productivity
If personalized insurance rates based on driving behavior are implemented, then insurance efficiency improves, but challenges in identifying the driver persist
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from the mobile application and telematics device to continuously monitor and identify the driver. The mobile application on the driver's mobile device provides feedback about who is operating the vehicle, and this information is fed back to the insurance system to determine personalized insurance rates, creating a closed-loop system that solves the driver identification challenge.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile application serves as an intermediary between the driver and the insurance system. Instead of directly identifying the driver through complex surveillance, the system uses the driver's own mobile device as a mediator to provide identification information and driving behavior data, simplifying the detection and measurement process.
3Ease of operation
If text blocking applications require voluntary launch, then ease of operation is maintained, but effectiveness in preventing unsafe driving is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by requiring the mobile application to be launched and connected to the remote starter device before the vehicle can be started. This preliminary connection establishes the framework for communication restrictions before driving begins, ensuring that the application is active and ready to enforce restrictions without requiring additional user actions during driving.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the driver's own mobile device and application to enforce communication restrictions. The mobile application on the driver's device automatically implements the restrictions based on the connection status with the remote starter device, making the driver serve themselves in enforcing the restrictions without requiring external enforcement mechanisms.
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AI summary
A method of encouraging safe driving of a vehicle using a remote starter device installed at a vehicle is provided. The remote starter device may determine whether it is in signal communication with a remote starter application operating at a mobile computing device separate from the remote starter device. When the remote starter device is in signal communication with the remote starter application, the remote starter device may permit ignition of the vehicle. When the remote starter device is not in signal communication with the remote starter application, the remote starter device may prevent ignition of the vehicle. The driver of the vehicle may be identified and a vehicle telematics device installed at the vehicle may provide vehicle telematics data to an insurance underwriting system. A personalized insurance rate for the driver may be determined based, at least in part, on the vehicle telematics data.