Vehicle Driving Information System for Driver Feature Awareness

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Solution Overview

Problem

Vehicle operators often remain unaware of and fail to activate additional performance features like adaptive cruise control and lane keeping assist systems, leading to missed opportunities for enhanced vehicle performance.

Innovation Solution

An information providing system that monitors and analyzes driving behavior to identify repeated patterns, selects relevant functionalities, and recommends their activation to the driver through intelligent coaching and teaching algorithms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If vehicle functionalities are provided but not actively promoted, then device complexity is reduced, but driver awareness and utilization of features decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriver awareness of functionalitiesVSAvoidinformation providing system
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of driving patterns and functionality usage before making recommendations. The processor analyzes driving behavior data and functionality activation data in advance to identify patterns, then proactively recommends functionalities before the driver encounters situations where they would be beneficial.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback loop where driver responses to recommendations are collected and used to refine future recommendations. The processor monitors whether drivers activate recommended functionalities and uses this feedback to adjust the information providing strategy, creating a learning system that adapts to individual driver preferences and behaviors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If the system provides detailed information about functionalities, then driver familiarity improves, but information overload may occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedriver familiarity with functionalitiesVSAvoidinformation processing for driver
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides information with local quality by tailoring recommendations to specific driving situations and individual driver needs. Rather than providing generic information about all functionalities, the processor analyzes each driver's specific behavior patterns and recommends only those functionalities relevant to their driving style and current situation, making information delivery targeted and context-appropriate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial action by selecting and presenting only the most relevant functionalities for recommendation rather than providing comprehensive information about all available features. The processor prioritizes recommendations based on analyzed driving patterns, presenting a curated subset of functionalities that are most likely to be useful to the specific driver, avoiding information overload while maintaining effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10150410B2Apparatus and methods for providing vehicle driving information
Publication Date: 2018.12.11 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

An information providing system for a vehicle is provided. The vehicle is operable by a driver capable of exhibiting driving behavior, the driving behavior being a recorded frequency of occurrences. The system can include a processor that is configured to: obtain a first driving pattern from the driving behavior, the first driving pattern being specified when the same driving behavior is repeated above a threshold frequency; select at least one functionality based on the first driving pattern obtained; and recommend the at least one functionality selected by the selector to the driver.