Systems and methods for managing an insurance policy for a vehicle

• US 10,825,098 B1
• Filed: 05/08/2018
• Issued: 11/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Original Assignee: United Services Automobile Association
• Inventors: Bueche, Jr., Michael Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Edward
• Application Number:
  US15/973,840
• Time in Patent Office: 910 Days
• Field of Search: 705 35, 705 4
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0841 Registering performance data recording measured values G01D; information storage G11B

Abstract

A system includes one or more sensors configured to acquire data indicative of a condition of one or more components of a vehicle. The system also includes one or more processors configured to receive the data, determine a risk profile for the vehicle based on the data, and determine an insurance cost for the vehicle based on the risk profile.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

one or more sensors configured to acquire data indicative of a condition of one or more components of a vehicle; and

one or more processors configured to;

receive the data;

determine a risk profile for the vehicle based on the data;

determine a future insurance cost for the vehicle based on the risk profile;

determine a maintenance procedure that, if completed within a time period or a distance traveled by the vehicle, would reduce the future insurance cost for the vehicle, wherein the maintenance procedure is based on the data indicative of the condition of the one or more components;

provide an instruction to an output device to display a respective indication of the future insurance cost, a respective indication of the maintenance procedure, and a respective indication of the time period or the distance traveled by the vehicle; and

provide an additional instruction to a vehicle control system to limit an operational characteristic of the vehicle, a route traveled by the vehicle, or both based on the risk profile.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more components comprise a tire, a brake pad, an air bag, a car alarm, a door lock, or any combination thereof.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more sensors comprise a tire pressure sensor configured to acquire a portion of the data that is indicative of a tire pressure of a tire of the vehicle.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to continuously determine the risk profile and the future insurance cost as the vehicle travels.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive and to determine the risk profile based on one or more of traffic conditions, weather conditions, crime conditions, or road conditions from one or more data services.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the vehicle comprises an autonomous vehicle.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more processors are configured to receive an indication of and to determine the risk profile based on one or more characteristics of an autonomous driving algorithm that controls the autonomous vehicle.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise a manufacturer of the autonomous driving algorithm.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to determine that the future insurance cost is higher compared to a present insurance cost in response to the data indicating an increase in risk associated with the risk profile.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to provide the additional instruction to limit the operational characteristic of the vehicle based on the risk profile until completion of the maintenance procedure.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more processors are configured to provide the additional instruction to limit the operational characteristic of the vehicle based on the risk profile indicating that the condition of the one or more components of the vehicle is outside of a threshold level.

9. A system, comprising:

one or more processors configured to;

receive a first indication of one or more characteristics of an autonomous driving algorithm that controls an autonomous vehicle, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise whether the autonomous driving algorithm is up-to-date;

receive a second indication of a quality of a camera that is on the autonomous vehicle and that is configured to facilitate autonomous driving of the autonomous vehicle;

determine a risk profile of the autonomous vehicle based on the first indication and the second indication;

determine an insurance cost for the autonomous vehicle based on the risk profile; and

limit an operational characteristic of the autonomous vehicle, a route traveled by the autonomous vehicle, or both based on the autonomous driving algorithm not being up-to-date.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise a manufacturer of the autonomous driving algorithm.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise a safety record associated with the autonomous driving algorithm.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors are configured to instruct an output device to provide a notification of the insurance cost.