Vehicle Feature Tuning Through Driver Feedback and Performance Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern vehicles present complex features and settings that drivers often fail to utilize or adjust effectively due to lack of knowledge or understanding of how these settings impact their driving experience, leading to inefficiencies and unsatisfied user experiences.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle system utilizing processors to monitor performance, gather driver data from various sources, and adjust settings based on driver preferences, including social media analysis and real-time feedback, to tailor the vehicle experience to individual driving styles and preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vehicle features and settings are made more complex to provide greater customization options, then adaptability to driver preferences is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates because drivers cannot understand or effectively use the complex features
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically monitors driver behavior, analyzes driving patterns, and adjusts vehicle settings without requiring driver intervention. The vehicle serves itself by autonomously optimizing features based on observed driving styles, eliminating the need for drivers to understand or manually configure complex settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors driver responses to setting changes and uses this feedback to refine future adjustments. By observing whether drivers accept or reject suggested changes, the system learns and adapts its adjustment strategy, improving ease of operation while maintaining high adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If the system automatically adjusts vehicle settings based on driver monitoring, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to additional sensors and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses existing vehicle sensors and processors for multiple purposes - monitoring driver behavior, analyzing driving patterns, and adjusting settings all through a unified platform. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components, mitigating the increase in device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines driver monitoring, behavior analysis, and settings adjustment functions into an integrated system. By merging these functions that could operate separately, the patent reduces overall system complexity while achieving automatic adaptation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system collects and analyzes extensive driver data from multiple sources, then adaptability to individual preferences is improved, but loss of information increases due to privacy and data security concerns
Solution Approach 1:
The system processes and analyzes driver data locally within the vehicle's processing units rather than transmitting raw data externally. This localized processing allows the system to extract necessary behavioral patterns while minimizing the transmission and storage of sensitive personal information, thereby protecting driver privacy.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle enacts a change to a feature setting affecting vehicle performance and stores an association between a driver of the vehicle and the change. The vehicle monitors performance with respect to the at least one aspect following enactment of the change and reports the vehicle performance. The vehicle issues an inquiry with predefined questions enquiring about the driver's changed experience in light of the change. Responsive to the driver's answers, the vehicle determines whether a second change should be made to the vehicle feature setting and the nature of the second change. The vehicle enacts the second change and repeats the monitoring, reporting, inquiry, determination of whether to make and the nature of additional changes subsequent to the second change, and enactment of the additional changes, until there is a determination that no additional changes should be made, to tune the vehicle feature setting to the driver.