TECHNOLOGIES FOR ASSISTING VEHICLES WITH CHANGING ROAD CONDITIONS

摘要

Technologies for assisting vehicles with changing road conditions includes vehicle assistance data based on crowd-sourced road data received from a plurality of vehicles and/or infrastructure sensors. The crowd-sourced road data may be associated with a particular section of roadway and may be used to various characteristics of the roadway such as grade, surface, hazardous conditions, and so forth. The vehicle assistance data may be provided to an in-vehicle computing device to assist or facilitate traversal of the roadway.

主权项

1. A vehicle assistance server for assisting a driver of a vehicle, the vehicle assistance server comprising:
a data acquisition module to receive road data from each of a plurality of vehicles, wherein the road data includes data indicative of at least one characteristic of a first road segment traversed by each of the plurality of vehicles; a data aggregation module to aggregate the road data received from each of the plurality of vehicles to generate crowd-sourced road data associated with the first road segment; a vehicle information module to receive vehicle profile information from a first vehicle located on the first road segment, wherein the vehicle profile information defines at least one characteristic of the first vehicle; and a vehicle assistance data determination module to determine vehicle assistance data for the first vehicle based on the vehicle profile information and the crowd-sourced road data associated with the first road segment, wherein the vehicle assistance data is usable by an in-vehicle computing device of the first vehicle to facilitate traversal of the first road segment by the vehicle.