Stability control sharing

• US 10,102,743 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions LLC (SPX Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Bosch Automotive Service Solutions LLC (SPX Corporation)
• Inventors: Stein, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewandroski, Sara J
• Application Number:
  US14/979,792
• Publication Number:
  US 20170186313A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]

Abstract

A system that receives and analyzes a connected vehicle'"'"'s safety feature activation and the location of activation on a road to determine if a hazard condition exist and providing an alert on a subscriber'"'"'s vehicle or wireless device. Weather information for the location of the activation, highway engineering information for the location of the activation and other connected vehicles'"'"' safety feature activation at the location are also considered in the determination if the hazardous condition exists on the road. The hazardous condition alert can also be sent to the highway transportation department so that the hazardous condition can be mitigated.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented method of identifying hazard conditions on a road, the method programmed in a non-transitory processor-readable medium and to execute on one or more processors of a computing device configured to execute the method, comprising:

receiving, with a processor of the computing device, a first safety feature activation information of a first connected vehicle being driven on the road, and a location on the road of a first safety feature activation, wherein the first safety feature activation information includes a duration of the first safety feature activation, number of first safety feature activations that occurred on the road, actions taken by a driver of the first connected vehicle and a time of the first safety feature activation;

analyzing, with the processor, the first safety feature activation information of the first connected vehicle to determine if hazard conditions exist at the location on the road being driven on by the first connected vehicle;

storing the determined hazard conditions and location of the determined hazard conditions and first safety feature activation information on a memory of the computing device; and

providing, via an alert application stored on the memory, to a subscriber the determined hazard conditions and the location of the determined hazard conditions, and wherein the alert application further provides the determined hazard conditions and location to an electronic road sign located near the location of the hazard conditions.

2. The identifying method of claim 1, wherein the alert application provides the determined hazard conditions and location along a route driven by the subscriber.

3. The identifying method of claim 1, wherein the first safety feature activation is selected from a group consisting of lane change warnings, anti-lock braking and electronic stability control.

4. The identifying method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving weather information for the location of the first safety feature activation or highway engineering information for the location of the first safety feature activation.

5. The identifying method of claim 4, wherein the analyzing step uses weather information for the location of the first safety feature activation or highway engineering information for the location of the first safety feature activation in addition to the first safety feature activation information of the first connected vehicle to determine if the hazardous conditions exist for that location of the road.

6. The identifying method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving, with the processor of the computing device, a second safety feature activation information of a second connected vehicle that was collected at the location of the first safety feature activation; and

analyzing the second safety feature activation information of the second vehicle with the processor in addition to the first safety feature activation information of the first connected vehicle to determine if hazard conditions exist at the location on the road being driven on by the first and second connected vehicles.

7. The identifying method of claim 1, wherein the subscriber is a highway transportation department, a driver of the first connected vehicle or a passenger of the first connected vehicle.

8. The identifying method of claim 1, wherein the subscriber is a weather station, a radio station or a web traffic provider.

9. The identifying method of claim 1, wherein the alert application further provides the determined hazard conditions and location to a display of a second connected vehicle.

10. A computing device that analyzes and provides hazardous conditions alerts for a road, comprising:

a processor configured to control functions of the computing device via software and a plurality of applications;

a global positioning system configured to provide a location of a subscriber in relation to a location of a determined hazardous condition on the road;

a wireless interface configured to communicate with a remote device of the subscriber and to receive a first safety feature activation information of a first connected vehicle being driven on the road and a location on the road of a first safety feature activation; and

a memory in communication with the processor and configured to store an operating system and the plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of applications comprising;

an alert application that determines if the first safety feature activation information indicates that the hazardous condition exists at the location on the road and provides an alert about the hazardous condition and the location of the hazardous condition to the remote device of the subscriber, wherein the first safety feature activation information includes duration of the first safety feature activation, number of first safety feature activations, actions taken by a driver of the first connected vehicle and a time of the first safety feature activation, and wherein the alert application further provides the determined hazard conditions and location to an electronic road sign located near the location of the hazard conditions; and

a payment application that receives a payment of the subscriber in order to receive alerts from the alert application.

11. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the alert application further provides the determined hazard conditions and location to a display of a second connected vehicle.

12. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the alert is an email, a posting, or an instant message that is received on the remote device of the subscriber.

13. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the wireless interface further configured to receive a second safety feature activation information of a second connected vehicle at the location of the first safety feature activation.

14. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the alert application further determines if the second safety feature activation information in addition to the first safety feature activation information indicate that the hazardous condition exists at the location on the road and provides the alert about the hazardous condition and the location of the hazardous condition to the remote device of the subscriber.

15. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the first safety feature is selected from a group consisting of lane change warnings, anti-lock braking and electronic stability control.

16. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the wireless interface further configured to receive weather information for the location of the first safety feature activation or highway engineering information for the location of the first safety feature activation.

17. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the alert application further determines if the first safety feature activation information in addition to the weather information or highway engineering information indicate that the hazardous condition exists at the location on the road.

18. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the subscriber is a highway transportation department, a driver of the first connected vehicle or a passenger of the first connected vehicle.