Method of analyzing driving behavior and warning the driver

• US 9,619,203 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2014
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Insurance Services Office Incorporated (Verisk Analytics Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Insurance Services Office Incorporated (Verisk Analytics Incorporated)
• Inventors: Tamir, Asaf, Topaz, Ido
• Primary Examiner(s): Lieu, Julie
• Application Number:
  US14/182,568
• Publication Number:
  US 20140163848A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,148 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/40 Correcting position, velocity or attitude
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0283 Price estimation or determination
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0962 having an indicator mounted inside the vehicle, e.g. giving voice messages
• 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 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096791 where the origin of the information is another vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/167 Control of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/481 Insulating layers on insulating parts, with or without metallisation
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 21/4853 Connection or disconnection of other leads to or from a metallisation, e.g. pins, wires, bumps
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/08225 the item being non-metallic, e.g. insulating substrate with or without metallisation
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2224/16227 the bump connector connecting to a bond pad of the item
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/49811 Additional leads joined to the metallisation on the insulating substrate, e.g. pins, bumps, wires, flat leads H01L23/49827 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/49822 : Multilayer substrates multilayer metallisation on monolayer substrate H01L23/498
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 23/49838 : Geometry or layout
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/08 : of an individual bonding area
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 24/16 : of an individual bump connector

Abstract

A method of evaluating the driving behavior in a vehicle. The method includes determining values of a plurality of parameters of the operation of a first vehicle in a first road segment, determining values of the plurality of parameters for one or more second vehicles in a second road segment having similar properties to those of the first road segment, comparing the determined values of the first vehicle and the one or more second vehicles and providing an evaluation of the driving behavior of the first vehicle, responsive to the comparison.

Claims

1. A method of analyzing the driving behavior of a driver or a vehicle, the method comprising:

monitoring, in real time by a monitoring unit on board a vehicle, the driving behavior of a driver or a vehicle in a plurality of structurally similar road portions;

determining a real-time score for the driver or vehicle in said structurally similar road portions; and

automatically generating, by a warning generator in the vehicle, a warning to the driver based on the real-time score.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining the score comprises analyzing a percentage of said road portions passed properly by the driver according to predefined thresholds.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein said predefined thresholds are dynamic thresholds.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise curves.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise intersections.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise road bumps.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise traffic lights.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise road portions having a similar traffic sign.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise highways.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise city roads.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein said structurally similar road portions comprise rural roads.

12. The method according to claim 1, further comprising calculating insurance rates for said vehicle based on said score.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising calculating a discount on insurance rates for said vehicle based on said score.

14. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, providing said warning remote from the vehicle.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining the score comprises comparing the driving behavior of the driver or vehicle to driving behaviors of other drivers or vehicles in said structurally similar road portions.

16. The method according to claim 1, further comprising updating the score based on continuous monitoring of the driver or vehicle in said structurally similar road portions.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein said step of determining a score for the driver or vehicle in said structurally similar road portions comprises determining a plurality of scores for the driver or vehicle in said structurally similar road portions.