Vehicle Controller Passive Wireless Feature Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users are inconvenienced in learning about specific features of a vehicle and are apprehensive about artificial intelligence systems that collect and use their data for marketing purposes, lacking transparency on how their data is stored and used.
Innovation Solution
A system that communicates vehicle-specific features to personal electronic devices through passive or active wireless interactions using short-range communication protocols, such as IEEE 802.xx standards, allowing users to discover features like AI systems and data usage without human intervention, or by scanning a symbol associated with the vehicle's VIN.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users manually look up VIN to learn about vehicle features, then they can obtain vehicle-specific information, but the process is inconvenient and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting the user's presence near the vehicle and proactively offering to transmit vehicle feature information, eliminating the need for users to manually initiate the information retrieval process through VIN lookup
Solution Approach 2:
The vehicle system autonomously identifies nearby personal electronic devices and automatically transmits vehicle-specific feature information without requiring user intervention to enter VIN or navigate to information pages, allowing the system to serve itself in providing information
2Adaptability or versatility
If artificial intelligence systems collect user data for marketing purposes, then they can provide personalized features, but users become apprehensive and lose trust
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by explicitly displaying information about how user data is captured, stored, and used, providing transparency that addresses user concerns and builds trust while maintaining the ability to deliver personalized vehicle features
Solution Approach 2:
The personal electronic device acts as an intermediary that facilitates transparent communication between the vehicle's AI systems and users, displaying information about data usage practices in a user-friendly manner that builds trust
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to easily access vehicle-specific features and understand data usage, enhancing transparency and trust by providing information on data storage and dissemination without requiring manual VIN lookup, addressing user apprehensions about AI systems.
Implementation Method 1
The one or more controllers establish wireless communication with one or more personal electronic devices based on a short-range communication protocol
Implementation Method 2
the passive wireless interaction includes sensing the vehicle and the one or more personal electronic devices are within the predefined proximity of one another based on proximity sensing
Data Source
AI summary
A system for communicating vehicle-specific features to one or more personal electronic devices includes one or more controllers in wireless communication with a centralized computer system including one or more database for storing the vehicle-specific features. The one or more controllers execute instructions to undergo a passive wireless interaction with the one or more personal electronic devices. The passive wireless interaction involves determining the one or more personal electronic devices are located within a predefined proximity around a vehicle without human interaction. In response to undergoing the passive wireless interaction, the one or more controllers transmit one or more vehicle-specific features to the one or more personal electronic devices, where the one or more vehicle-specific features are unique to the vehicle.