Friendly maintenance and recall notifications

摘要

Disclosed herein are devices, systems, and methods for providing friendly maintenance and recall notifications. Drivers can have personalized online driver profiles that indicate preferences for one or more notification classes, each notification class having a consistent theme or style. When a maintenance or recall condition arises, the driver can be presented with a notification that is both specific to the particular maintenance condition and associated with the notification class for which the driver has indicated a preference. Maintenance conditions can be detected by one or more sensors. Notifications for recall conditions can be sent from a remote server and received at the vehicle. A plurality of notifications related to a particular condition can be stored in a notification database, and the driver can be presented with a random notification, consistent with the driver's preferences, from the plurality of available notifications.

主权项

1. A computing device for a vehicle, comprising:
one or more processors for controlling operations of the computing device; and a memory storing data and program instructions used by the one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute instructions stored in the memory to:
select, from a plurality of notifications that are all specific to one current maintenance condition relating to the vehicle but that are each associated with one of a plurality of different notification classes, based at least in part on random selection, one notification consistent with a preference of an occupant of the vehicle for the one notification's associated notification class; andnotify the occupant of the current maintenance condition using the selected one notification.