Vehicle Test Drive Preference Profiling System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in determining vehicle preferences due to insufficient information about available options during the purchasing process, leading to inefficiencies in vehicle selection and sales interactions.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle-based system that records and analyzes user preferences during test drives using sensors like cameras and microphones, creating a user preference profile by processing user responses to prerecorded messages about vehicle features, thereby updating the profile and recommending suitable vehicles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users are provided with detailed information about vehicle options during test drives, then user preference accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser preference accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the vehicle options information into multiple prerecorded messages that are communicated to the user sequentially during the test drive. Each message describes specific vehicle options, and the system records and analyzes user responses to each message separately, building a comprehensive preference profile through this segmented approach.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses prerecorded messages that are prepared in advance to describe vehicle options. This preliminary preparation of information allows the system to present structured, pre-processed content to users during the test drive, improving preference detection accuracy without requiring complex real-time information generation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If the system records and analyzes user responses during test drives, then vehicle recommendation quality is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecommendation qualityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously records and analyzes user responses throughout the entire test drive duration. By maintaining continuous data collection and analysis rather than using discrete survey points, the system accumulates comprehensive preference information naturally as the user experiences the vehicle, improving recommendation quality without requiring additional dedicated time for preference assessment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements real-time feedback loops where user responses to prerecorded messages are immediately recorded and used to update the preference profile during the test drive. This continuous feedback mechanism allows the system to refine recommendations dynamically based on actual user reactions, enhancing recommendation quality while utilizing the existing test drive time efficiently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11551279B2Systems and methods for making vehicle purchase recommendations based on a user preference profile
Publication Date: 2023.01.10 TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC
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AI summary

A vehicle includes a system for recording and analyzing user preferences during a vehicle test drive. The system includes a processor and a memory that stores processor-readable instructions. When executed by the processor, the processor-readable instructions cause the system to: determine a user identity; create a user preference profile based on the user identity; communicate a prerecorded message describing one or more vehicle options to the user; record a user response of the user in response to the prerecorded message; analyze the recorded user response; and update the user preference profile based on the analysis of the recorded user response.