Switchable Vehicle Orientation for Scenic Seat Preference Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Passengers in vehicles, especially in tourist buses, may not be able to enjoy scenic landscapes equally due to varying riding positions, and some may desire preferential treatment for better viewing.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle with switchable forward and backward configurations, featuring distinct riding spaces and a control system that identifies optimal viewing sides and preferential spaces based on passenger attributes, adjusting direction to ensure better landscape viewing for preferentially treated passengers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the vehicle travels in a fixed forward direction, then the route is simple and easy to control, but passengers in certain riding positions cannot enjoy the landscape well
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle's forward and backward directions are made switchable rather than fixed, allowing the system to dynamically adjust the traveling direction based on landscape quality and passenger attributes. The control unit switches between forward and backward directions to ensure preferential passengers can enjoy the landscape, transforming a static operation mode into a dynamic adaptive one.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of always traveling forward, the vehicle can switch to backward direction when needed. This inversion of the conventional unidirectional traveling approach allows the system to optimize landscape viewing for preferential passengers by traveling in reverse when the landscape is better in that direction.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the vehicle switches direction frequently to optimize landscape viewing, then passenger satisfaction improves, but control complexity and operational difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identification of the good landscape side and preferential passenger positions before determining the traveling direction. By pre-identifying these factors and storing attribute information about passengers, the control unit can make direction decisions more efficiently without complex real-time calculations during travel.
Solution Approach 2:
The control unit continuously monitors passenger attributes, landscape quality on both sides, and current traveling direction to dynamically adjust the direction. This feedback mechanism ensures the system optimizes landscape viewing while adapting to changing conditions, balancing passenger satisfaction with controlled operational complexity.
3Ease of operation
If the vehicle always travels forward, then operational simplicity is maintained, but preferential passengers cannot enjoy the landscape effectively
Solution Approach 1:
The vehicle transitions from a static forward-only operation to a dynamic system that can switch between forward and backward directions. This dynamic capability ensures the system can reliably guarantee landscape viewing for preferential passengers while maintaining relatively simple operational control through automated direction switching.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first riding space and a second riding space, each of which is a riding position on one side and the other side of a right side and a left side with respect to a front-rear direction, respectively, and is configured to: acquire a traveling route; identify a side where a landscape viewed from the vehicle is good from among the right side and the left side with respect to a traveling direction; identify a preferential space in which a degree of preferential treatment of a passenger riding in the first riding space or the second riding space is high; and determine the forward direction and the backward direction when the vehicle travels on the traveling route such that the preferential space is set to the side where the landscape viewed from the vehicle is good.