Shared Navigation Session for Driver Distraction Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
During navigation sessions, passengers and drivers often have separate navigation sessions on their devices, leading to duplicative and distracting instructions, causing confusion and limiting access to route information for passengers.
Innovation Solution
A passenger's computing device can join a navigation session initiated by a driver's device, receiving supplemental instructions that differ from the driver's instructions, allowing synchronized route data to be shared without duplicating network traffic, and enabling passengers to contribute to route adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If passengers execute separate navigation sessions from drivers, then passengers can access navigation information independently, but duplicative instructions are emitted simultaneously causing driver distraction and confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate navigation sessions into a shared navigation session where the driver's device and passenger's device participate in a single synchronized navigation experience. The system combines the navigation functionality of both devices while coordinating instruction output to avoid simultaneous duplicative instructions, thereby maintaining passenger access to navigation information while eliminating driver distraction from overlapping audio outputs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a coordination mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the driver's device and passenger's device. This intermediary coordinates which device emits audio instructions at any given time, ensuring that only one device provides audible navigation guidance while both devices display visual route information, thus preventing driver distraction while maintaining passenger independence.
2Ease of operation
If passengers execute separate navigation sessions, then passengers can search for route information independently, but the passenger lacks access to information related to the driver's navigation route
Solution Approach 1:
The shared navigation session provides universal access to the driver's navigation route information for both the driver and passenger devices. The system enables the passenger's device to access and display the same route information, points of interest, and navigation data as the driver's device, while still allowing the passenger to perform independent searches and interactions with the navigation system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments navigation information into different display and output channels for the driver and passenger devices. While both devices access the same core route information from the shared navigation session, the system allows each device to display and interact with information according to the specific needs and roles of the driver and passenger, enabling independent route information searching while maintaining synchronization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If both devices provide navigation instructions simultaneously, then both driver and passenger receive guidance, but overlapping audio instructions make it difficult to hear and follow directions
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically assigns the role of audio instruction emitter between the driver's device and passenger's device based on real-time conditions. The coordination mechanism determines which device should provide audible guidance at any given moment, switching roles as needed to ensure clear instruction delivery without overlapping audio outputs, thereby maintaining reliable and audible navigation guidance for the driver.
4Adaptability or versatility
If passengers receive detailed navigation instructions, then passengers can assist the driver as co-pilots, but the driver may be overwhelmed with excessive information
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing different levels of navigation information detail to the driver and passenger devices based on their respective roles. The passenger's device receives and displays detailed navigation instructions, points of interest, and route information that enables the passenger to assist as a co-pilot. The driver's device receives only the essential navigation instructions needed for safe driving, avoiding information overload while still providing sufficient guidance.
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AI summary
A first computing device may implement a method for sharing a navigation session to minimize driver distraction. The method includes requesting access to a shared navigation session synchronized with a navigation session at a second computing device indicative of a navigation route, and the navigation session includes route data. In response to receiving access to the shared navigation session, the first computing device may receive synchronized route data indicative of the navigation route at the second computing device. The method further comprises obtaining one or more first navigation instructions corresponding to the synchronized route data including at least one navigation instruction that augments or is output in a different manner than one or more second navigation instructions output at the second computing device, and outputting the one or more first navigation instructions.