| 摘要 |
The environmental impact of vehicle transit through an area is often evaluated through indirect and/or aggregate metrics, such as visibility and/or health effects from smog, or the contamination of air or water quality. However, such environmental metrics may be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, and/or insufficient to inform a user of a vehicle as to the environmental impact of the vehicle transit of his or her vehicle on the environment. Instead, a vehicle device may collect driving metrics for a vehicle, and may transmit such driving metrics to an environmental monitoring service, which may correlate such driving metrics for the vehicle with the environmental impact. A notification of environmental impact may be transmitted back to the vehicle device, which may present the environmental impact to the user, and/or may adjust an autonomous operation of the vehicle, such as a speed or route of the vehicle, in view of the environmental impact. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of informing a user about an environmental impact of vehicle transit in an area, the method involving a device having a processor and comprising:
executing, by the processor, instructions that cause the device to:
receive, from a vehicle device of a vehicle, a vehicle report identifying a location of the vehicle within the area and at least one driving metric of the vehicle;evaluate the at least one driving metric of the vehicle to assess an environmental impact of the vehicle on the area; andnotify the user about the environmental impact of the vehicle transit of the vehicle on the area. |
