Vehicle Load Profile Control for Overloading Restrictions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Vehicles are prone to misuse, particularly through overloading by non-owners who may not be aware of the vehicle's limitations, leading to reliability degradation.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle load condition manager system that uses sensors and user profiles to monitor and adjust vehicle functions based on loading conditions, such as weight, to prevent overloading by limiting speed, disabling ignition, or restricting gear shifts, ensuring safe operating parameters are maintained.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the vehicle allows full operational freedom to all users, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to potential overloading by non-owner users
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different operational restrictions to different users based on their relationship to the vehicle. Owner users experience full vehicle functionality, while non-owner users have restricted functions (e.g., speed limiting, ignition disabling, gear shift restrictions). This localized differentiation resolves the contradiction by providing ease of operation for owners while protecting reliability through non-owner restrictions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts vehicle operational parameters based on real-time detection of user identity and loading conditions. Sensors continuously monitor weight, and the control system adapts restrictions accordingly - for example, imposing speed limits or disabling ignition when non-owners are detected or when loading thresholds are exceeded. This dynamic adaptation allows the vehicle to maintain reliability while preserving operational freedom when conditions are safe.
2Reliability
If the vehicle imposes strict loading restrictions to prevent overloading, then reliability is improved, but adaptability deteriorates due to reduced operational flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses dynamic, real-time monitoring of loading conditions through sensors rather than static restrictions. The control system continuously evaluates actual weight against thresholds and adjusts operational parameters accordingly. This allows the vehicle to adapt to legitimate loading needs while preventing dangerous overloading, thus maintaining both reliability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters (speed limits, ignition state, gear restrictions) based on detected loading conditions and user identity. Rather than imposing fixed restrictions, the vehicle adjusts parameters dynamically - for example, allowing full operation when loading is safe but imposing speed limits or disabling ignition when thresholds are exceeded. This parameter-based control resolves the contradiction by maintaining reliability through conditional restrictions while preserving adaptability when conditions permit.
Data Source
AI summary
An example apparatus includes a profile manager to determine whether a user of a vehicle has a corresponding profile stored in memory based on a personalized vehicle key associated with the user, in response to determining that the profile for the user is not available, receive one or more inputs from the user via a display, the one or more inputs including a loading condition threshold and a corresponding response to exceeding the loading condition threshold, and generate the profile for the user based on the one more inputs from the user; and a vehicle feature modifier to modify a feature of the vehicle when a load condition of the vehicle satisfies the loading condition threshold to limit or disable operation of the vehicle based on the corresponding response to exceeding the loading condition threshold, the feature modified based upon the profile.