Vehicle Route Payment Negotiation for Traffic Priority
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a system and method to prioritize autonomous vehicles in traffic situations, allowing one vehicle to gain precedence over others through financial compensation, to efficiently navigate through congested areas and arrive at destinations on time.
Innovation Solution
The system involves a self-driving vehicle equipped with a traffic-prioritization processor and radiofrequency data transceiver that communicates with other vehicles and a central server to negotiate and pay for traffic prioritization, enabling the vehicle to adjust its route and timing based on user input or predetermined settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If autonomous vehicles follow standard traffic rules without prioritization, then traffic flow remains orderly and predictable, but travel time increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of traffic priority status by offering financial compensation. Vehicles can transition from normal priority to high priority status by paying other vehicles to yield, thereby changing their position in the traffic flow and reducing travel time while maintaining overall system order through monetary exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a payment intermediary mechanism where money acts as the mediator between vehicles. Instead of direct conflict or race conditions, vehicles use financial compensation as an intermediary to negotiate priority, allowing the system to resolve priority conflicts efficiently while maintaining orderly traffic flow.
2Adaptability or versatility
If vehicles negotiate priority through payment, then travel time is reduced and routing flexibility improves, but system complexity increases due to communication and transaction protocols
Solution Approach 1:
The payment and communication system serves multiple functions: it acts as a priority negotiation mechanism, a traffic coordination protocol, and a financial transaction system all in one. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated systems for each purpose, thereby managing complexity while providing versatile routing options.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables vehicles to autonomously negotiate and resolve their own priority conflicts without external traffic control intervention. Each vehicle independently evaluates routing options, makes payment decisions, and executes priority adjustments, reducing the need for complex centralized control while maintaining high routing flexibility.
3Speed
If vehicles automatically negotiate priority without user input, then response time is reduced and navigation efficiency improves, but user control and decision-making authority decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the level of automation based on user preferences and situational context. Users can configure their vehicles to operate in fully automatic mode for rapid response, or switch to manual approval mode for greater control. This dynamic adaptability allows the system to optimize response speed while preserving user control according to individual needs.
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AI summary
A computing device for navigation of a vehicle, the computing device comprising a processor and a display screen presenting a map showing multiple routes for navigating to a destination. The display screen also presents prices and travel times for the multiple routes. Responsive to a user selection of one of the multiple routes, the processor cooperates with a radiofrequency data transceiver to communicate with one or more other vehicles or with a central server to negotiate a traffic reprioritization for a user-selected route to the destination.