Virtual Automotive Show Platform for Reducing Overhead Costs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automotive shows face limitations such as high overhead costs, limited accessibility, and lack of personalization, making it challenging to provide an engaging experience to a larger audience at a reasonable cost.
Innovation Solution
A digital platform that allows consumers to access information about vehicle OEMs, dealerships, and product lines, enabling personalized virtual automotive shows, inventory management, vehicle configuration, and transaction facilitation over a network, with features like interactive interfaces, inventory filtering, and third-party services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automotive shows are held at physical locations with space rental and display setup, then consumers can experience vehicles in person with interactive displays and presentations, but overhead costs become excessively high and accessibility is limited to specific times and locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the automotive show experience through an online platform that replicates vehicle displays, interactive features, and presentations in a digital environment. This allows consumers to access the show experience remotely at any time without incurring physical venue costs, thereby reducing overhead expenses while maintaining accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions the automotive show from physical three-dimensional space to virtual digital space. By moving the show online, it eliminates the need for physical space rental and associated logistics, while providing consumers with accessible entry through internet-connected devices, thus resolving the contradiction between accessibility and cost.
2Adaptability or versatility
If automotive shows use standardized physical formats, then setup and execution become simpler, but the shows cannot be configured to individual consumer tastes or preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic virtual platform where consumers can actively customize their show experience in real-time. Users can filter vehicles by their preferences, adjust display settings, and interact with content according to their personal tastes. This dynamic adaptability is achieved through software controls that allow individual customization without requiring complex physical reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent allows consumers to modify various parameters of their viewing experience including vehicle filters, display preferences, and interaction settings. By changing these digital parameters, consumers can tailor the show to their personal tastes without adding significant complexity, as the platform handles customization through software rather than physical modifications.
3Reliability
If automotive shows include comprehensive interactive displays, stages, presentations, and entertainment, then consumer experience is enhanced, but overhead costs for staffing, entertainment, and logistics increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical mechanical systems (stages, displays, entertainment venues) with digital equivalents hosted on a virtual platform. Interactive features, presentations, and entertainment content are delivered through software and multimedia, eliminating the need for physical infrastructure and associated staffing costs while maintaining or enhancing consumer experience quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual platform enables consumers to self-navigate and self-customize their experience without requiring extensive on-site staffing. The system automatically provides vehicle information, interactive displays, and presentations based on consumer preferences, thereby reducing the need for human staff while maintaining high service quality.
4Productivity
If physical automotive shows are organized at specific locations and times, then logistics and coordination become more manageable, but the audience reach is limited and cannot accommodate a larger dispersed consumer base
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal virtual platform that can serve multiple consumers simultaneously from any location with internet access. The single digital infrastructure serves as both the venue, display system, and information database for unlimited concurrent users, thereby expanding audience reach without proportionally increasing logistics complexity compared to organizing multiple physical shows.
Data Source
AI summary
Illustrative embodiments may generally be directed to, among other things, a platform for providing information to one or more consumers to facilitate the purchase of one or more vehicles. In one embodiment, the platform may provide information associated with one or more OEMs and their vehicle product lines. In another embodiment, the platform may facilitate selecting, building, modifying, comparing, and/or purchasing one or more vehicles. In yet another embodiment, the platform may determine inventory data corresponding to actual available inventory at one or more dealerships.