Systems and methods for executing feedback actions based upon vehicle practices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11568434-B2
Application number	US-201815906218-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 27, 2018
Priority date	Feb 27, 2018
Publication date	Jan 31, 2023
Grant date	Jan 31, 2023

Abstract

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for executing feedback actions based upon vehicle practices are provided. For example, sensor data is collected from sensors configured to collect sensor data associated with vehicles. The sensor data is synthesized to attribute sensor data to vehicle motion of the vehicle in relation to other objects. The vehicle motion is synthesized to determine driving actions of the vehicle, such as switching lanes, making a left hand turn, running a red light, etc. Vehicle practices of the vehicle are defined based upon the driving actions, such as a vehicle practice of a driver running red lights. A feedback action is executed to either reward the vehicle practices or incentivize a change in the vehicle practices.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
executing, on a processor of a computing device, instructions that cause the computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
establishing a connection with sensors configured to collect sensor data associated with one or more vehicles;
receiving, over the connection, transmissions of sensor data from the sensors;
synthesizing the sensor data to attribute at least some sensor data to vehicle motion of a vehicle, of a first user, in relation to other objects;
synthesizing the vehicle motion to determine one or more driving actions of the vehicle;
responsive to determining a threshold number of instances of the one or more driving actions, defining vehicle practices of the vehicle, corresponding to one or more driving habits of the first user of the vehicle, in relation to at least one of second vehicle practices of other vehicles or predefined vehicle practices based upon the one or more driving actions;
determining a feedback action to execute to either reward the vehicle practices or incentivize a change in the vehicle practices;
executing the feedback action, wherein the executing the feedback action comprises transmitting, over a computer network to a remote computing device, instructions for storing information in the remote computing device, wherein the instructions comprise at least one of authorization for the vehicle of the first user to access a restricted area, an adjustment command to adjust an insurance policy, a monetary payment command to add a first amount of money to a first account, or a monetary charge command to deduct a second amount of money from a second account;
determining a second feedback action to execute to incentivize a change in the vehicle practices;
adjusting the second feedback action to generate an adjusted feedback action, wherein the adjusting comprises imposing a first fine that at least one of (i) is determined based upon the vehicle being located in a school zone, or (ii) is determined based upon the vehicle being located in a residential neighborhood;
executing the adjusted feedback action, wherein the executing the adjusted feedback action comprises sending a notification indicative of the first fine to one or more devices;
evaluating at least some vehicle practices of a plurality of users comprising the first user, a second user and a third user;
identifying, based upon the evaluating, a group of users that have driving practices above a safety threshold, wherein the group of users comprises the first user and the second user but not the third user; and
responsive to the first user and the second user both being within the group of users that have driving practices above a safety threshold:
creating, by a system, a safe driver group for users having driving practices above the safety threshold, wherein the system includes the first user and the second user but not the third user in the safe driver group based upon a determination that the first user and the second user each have driving practices above the safety threshold but the third user does not have driving practices above the safety threshold; and
responsive to the system creating the safe driver group comprising the first user and the second user but not the third user, providing, to the users having driving practices above the safety threshold comprising the first user and the second user, access to at least one user interface populated with updates of one or more driving practices of two or more users comprised within the safe driver group, wherein the providing access comprises displaying the at least one user interface via a first device of the first user such that the first device of the first user displays information about one or more other users.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one user interface comprises at least one of a first object corresponding to viewing members, a second object corresponding to sending a message to members, a third object corresponding to viewing driving statistics of members, a fourth object corresponding to creating a competition, or a fifth object corresponding to viewing current competition progress.

3. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
generating a driving action recommendation for a driver to implement the change in the vehicle practices.

4. The method of claim 3 , comprising:
outputting the driving action recommendation by at least one of rendering the driving action recommendation on a display of at least one computing device, controlling an audio device to play an audio message of the driving action recommendation, or transmitting the driving action recommendation as a message to a message account of the driver.

5. The method of claim 4 , comprising:
evaluating subsequent vehicle practices of the driver to determine whether the driver implemented the change in the vehicle practices; and
outputting a message as a social network post regarding whether the driver implemented the change in the vehicle practices.

6. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
determining that the vehicle is an autonomous vehicle implementing autonomous driving functionality;
evaluating the vehicle practices of the vehicle attributed to the implementation of the autonomous driving functionality to identify a malfunction of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the malfunction corresponds to a malfunctioning sensor; and
outputting an alert message of the malfunction.

7. The method of claim 6 , comprising:
generating the alert message to comprise a link to a list of autonomous vehicle repair shops.

8. A computing device comprising:
a processor; and
memory comprising processor-executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
establishing a connection with sensors configured to collect sensor data associated with vehicles;
receiving, over the connection, transmissions of sensor data from the sensors;
synthesizing the sensor data to attribute at least some sensor data to vehicle motion of a vehicle, of a first user, in relation to other objects;
synthesizing the vehicle motion to determine one or more driving actions of the vehicle;
defining vehicle practices of the vehicle in relation to at least one of second vehicle practices of other vehicles or predefined vehicle practices based upon the one or more driving actions;
determining a feedback action to execute to either reward the vehicle practices or incentivize a change in the vehicle practices based upon how the vehicle practices affect at least one of traffic safety metrics or traffic flow metrics;
executing the feedback action, wherein the executing the feedback action comprises transmitting, over a computer network to a remote computing device, instructions for storing information in the remote computing device, wherein the instructions comprise at least one of authorization for the vehicle of the first user to access a restricted area, an adjustment command to adjust an insurance policy, a monetary payment command to add a first amount of money to a first account, or a monetary charge command to deduct a second amount of money from a second account;
determining a second feedback action to execute to incentivize a change in the vehicle practices;
adjusting the second feedback action to generate an adjusted feedback action, wherein the adjusting comprises imposing a first fine that at least one of (i) is determined based upon the vehicle being located in a school zone, or (ii) is determined based upon the vehicle being located in a residential neighborhood;
executing the adjusted feedback action;
evaluating at least some vehicle practices of a plurality of users comprising the first user, a second user and a

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Bax Eric Theodore
• Williams Kimberly
• Giaffo Lisa
• Donald John
• Salonen Teppo Veikko

Classifications

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