Vehicle Area Rating System for Route Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current driving assist and navigation systems lack a mechanism to allow users to rate geographic areas as desirable or undesirable, failing to provide a way for vehicles to avoid perceived dangerous or undesirable areas.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle communication system that enables users to rate areas based on personal preferences, with the ratings aggregated and used to direct autonomous or non-autonomous vehicles to or away from these areas, providing alerts to drivers about the route's desirability through a remote server and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a mechanism is introduced to allow users to rate geographic areas based on personal preferences, then the system can provide route guidance that avoids undesirable areas and favors scenic routes, but the device complexity increases due to the need for user interface, data aggregation, and communication infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
A remote server acts as an intermediary between vehicles and users, collecting area ratings from multiple vehicles, processing the data, and distributing route recommendations. This mediator approach allows the system to provide sophisticated route customization without requiring complex local processing in each vehicle, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system serves multiple functions through a unified platform: collecting user feedback on geographic areas, aggregating community ratings, providing route guidance to autonomous vehicles, and alerting drivers in non-autonomous vehicles. This multi-functionality approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a single integrated solution, managing complexity while enhancing adaptability
2Reliability
If real-time communication infrastructure is deployed for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-server communication, then the system can provide up-to-date area ratings and route recommendations, but the energy consumption increases due to continuous data transmission and reception
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous real-time communication, the system employs periodic updates where area ratings and route recommendations are transmitted at intervals or triggered by specific events (e.g., when a vehicle enters a new geographic zone or when sufficient rating data has been collected). This periodic approach maintains information reliability while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous communication
Solution Approach 2:
Area ratings and route recommendations are pre-calculated and stored on the remote server before being requested by vehicles. When a vehicle needs routing information, the data is already prepared and can be quickly transmitted, reducing the time and energy required for communication while ensuring reliable, up-to-date information is provided
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AI summary
A communication system for multiple vehicles includes a non-vehicle-based communication device operable to receive communications from vehicle-based communication devices of multiple vehicles and to transmit communications to the vehicle-based communication devices of multiple vehicles. Responsive to an occupant of a vehicle of the multiple vehicles rating or classifying an area at which the vehicle is traveling, the vehicle-based communication device of that vehicle communicates the rating or classification to the non-vehicle-based communication device. The vehicle-based communication device of that vehicle also communicates geographical location information pertaining to the area that is rated or classified. The non-vehicle-based communication device communicates the rating or classification for that area to other vehicle-based communication devices of other vehicles.