In-Vehicle Medic Control for Driver Medical Emergency Autonomy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems reduce autonomous driving functionality in vehicles when a driver is not attentive to the driving interface, which can be problematic if the driver is experiencing a debilitating medical condition, as it reduces safety by providing less driving assistance.
Innovation Solution
A medic system that detects when a driver is experiencing a debilitating medical condition and overrides the protocol to reduce autonomous driving functionality, instead activating latent software and hardware to maximize the autonomy level of the vehicle, thereby providing increased driving assistance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the vehicle reduces autonomous driving functionality when the driver is not attentive to the driving interface, then the driver is encouraged to maintain attention, but the safety is reduced when the driver is experiencing a debilitating medical condition
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of medical conditions through monitoring physiological parameters (heart rate, breathing rate, temperature) before the driver becomes fully unattentive. By detecting medical conditions in advance, the system can proactively increase autonomous driving functionality rather than reactively reducing it, thus maintaining safety while still encouraging attention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors both driver attention status and medical condition indicators, using this feedback to dynamically adjust the level of autonomous driving functionality. When medical conditions are detected, the system receives feedback about the driver's physiological state and相应地 adjusts autonomy levels, ensuring safety while adapting to the driver's actual needs rather than applying a fixed protocol.
2Reliability
If the vehicle maximizes autonomous driving functionality to ensure safety for medically compromised drivers, then driving assistance is improved, but the driver may become overly dependent on the system
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the level of autonomous driving functionality based on real-time detection of medical conditions and driver attention status. Rather than maintaining a fixed high level of autonomy, the system modulates autonomy levels according to the driver's actual state, increasing assistance when medical conditions are present and allowing normal operation when the driver is healthy and attentive, thus balancing safety with driver autonomy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of autonomous driving functionality based on detected medical conditions. When physiological parameters indicate a medical condition, the system adjusts the autonomy parameter to a higher level, providing increased assistance. When parameters return to normal ranges, the system reduces autonomy back to standard levels, maintaining adaptability while ensuring safety during critical periods.
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AI summary
The disclosure includes embodiments for a medic system to respond to a medical condition of a vehicle occupant. A method according to some embodiments is executed by a processor. The method also includes determining, by the processor, that a driver of an ego vehicle is experiencing a debilitating medical condition. The method also includes overriding a protocol to decrease an autonomy level of the ego vehicle responsive to inattentiveness of the driver to a driving interface of the ego vehicle so that the driver can be inattentive to the driving interface and the autonomy level is not decreased. The method also includes modifying an operation of an autonomous driving system of the ego vehicle to increase the autonomy level of the ego vehicle to decrease a driving responsibility of the driver responsive to the debilitating medical condition.