Systems and methods for adjusting operation of a vehicle according to HOV lane detection in traffic
First Claim
1. A traffic system for preemptively controlling one or more vehicle systems of a vehicle, comprising:
- one or more processors;
a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing;
a monitoring module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to, in response to (i) detecting that a present traffic level along a route of the vehicle satisfies a congestion threshold and (ii) detecting that a type of roadway on which the vehicle is traveling is a highway, determine whether the vehicle is traveling in a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane by identifying whether a number of passengers in the vehicle satisfies an HOV threshold to infer that the vehicle is traveling in the HOV lane without directly detecting in which lane the vehicle is traveling; and
a control module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to adjust operating parameters of the one or more vehicle systems according to whether the number of passengers satisfies the HOV threshold to cause the vehicle to operate efficiently while traveling along the route with the present traffic level.
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Abstract
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to preemptively controlling one or more vehicle systems of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to (i) detecting that a present traffic level along a route of the vehicle satisfies a congestion threshold and (ii) detecting that a type of roadway on which the vehicle is traveling is a highway, determining whether the vehicle is traveling in a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane by identifying whether a number of passengers in the vehicle satisfies an HOV threshold. The method includes adjusting the one or more vehicle systems within the vehicle according to whether the number of passengers satisfies the HOV threshold to cause the vehicle to operate efficiently while traveling along the route with the present traffic level.
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1. A traffic system for preemptively controlling one or more vehicle systems of a vehicle, comprising:
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one or more processors; a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing; a monitoring module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to, in response to (i) detecting that a present traffic level along a route of the vehicle satisfies a congestion threshold and (ii) detecting that a type of roadway on which the vehicle is traveling is a highway, determine whether the vehicle is traveling in a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane by identifying whether a number of passengers in the vehicle satisfies an HOV threshold to infer that the vehicle is traveling in the HOV lane without directly detecting in which lane the vehicle is traveling; and a control module including instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to adjust operating parameters of the one or more vehicle systems according to whether the number of passengers satisfies the HOV threshold to cause the vehicle to operate efficiently while traveling along the route with the present traffic level. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for controlling one or more vehicle systems of a vehicle and storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
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in response to (i) detecting that a present traffic level along a route of the vehicle satisfies a congestion threshold and (ii) detecting that a type of roadway on which the vehicle is traveling is a highway, determine whether the vehicle is traveling in a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane by identifying whether a number of passengers in the vehicle satisfies an HOV threshold to infer that the vehicle is traveling in the HOV lane without directly detecting in which lane the vehicle is traveling; and adjust operating parameters of the one or more vehicle systems according to whether the number of passengers satisfies the HOV threshold to cause the vehicle to operate efficiently while traveling along the route with the present traffic level. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for preemptively controlling one or more vehicle systems of a vehicle, comprising:
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in response to (i) detecting that a present traffic level along a route of the vehicle satisfies a congestion threshold and (ii) detecting that a type of roadway on which the vehicle is traveling is a highway, determining whether the vehicle is traveling in a high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane by identifying whether a number of passengers in the vehicle satisfies an HOV threshold to infer that the vehicle is traveling in the HOV lane without directly detecting in which lane the vehicle is traveling; and adjusting operating parameters of the one or more vehicle systems within the vehicle according to whether the number of passengers satisfies the HOV threshold to cause the vehicle to operate efficiently while traveling along the route with the present traffic level. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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