Systems and methods for predicting weather performance for a vehicle
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1. A method for use in predicting vehicle performance over a road segment, comprising:
- establishing a wireless connection between a vehicle moving along a travel path and a database having road surface information for said travel path of the vehicle, wherein said road surface information is compiled from vehicles previously passing over at least a portion of said travel path;
accessing said road surface information from the database for one or more upcoming road segments along said travel path;
accessing stored profile information for the vehicle, wherein said profile information includes at least one vehicle performance characteristic indexed to road surface conditions;
calculating a vehicle performance value for the vehicle for at least one of said upcoming road segments along said travel path using said stored profile information and said road surface information; and
upon said vehicle performance value exceeding a predetermined threshold, generating an output for receipt by an occupant of the vehicle.
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Abstract
Systems and methods for obtaining data about road conditions as they pertain to an individual vehicle, using this information to build a model of vehicle behavior as a function of its environment, and aggregating information concerning multiple vehicles along with data from other sources in order to predict vehicle behavior in future environments.
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1. A method for use in predicting vehicle performance over a road segment, comprising:
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establishing a wireless connection between a vehicle moving along a travel path and a database having road surface information for said travel path of the vehicle, wherein said road surface information is compiled from vehicles previously passing over at least a portion of said travel path; accessing said road surface information from the database for one or more upcoming road segments along said travel path; accessing stored profile information for the vehicle, wherein said profile information includes at least one vehicle performance characteristic indexed to road surface conditions; calculating a vehicle performance value for the vehicle for at least one of said upcoming road segments along said travel path using said stored profile information and said road surface information; and upon said vehicle performance value exceeding a predetermined threshold, generating an output for receipt by an occupant of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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