Method and system for providing speed limit alerts

摘要

A method and system may provide speed limit alerts to users driving in vehicles. A user's client device such as a smart-phone, smart watch, or tablet computer, may provide visual, audible, and/or haptic alerts to the user when the user exceeds a posted speed limit by more than a threshold amount. For example, when the user exceeds the posted speed limit by more than the threshold amount, the user's smart-phone may play a beeping sound and may announce the posted speed limit to the user. Moreover, the user's smart-phone may display an indication of the posted speed limit and a graphic notifying the user the she has exceeded the posted speed limit by more than the threshold amount. A map of a geographic area including the user's travelled route may also be displayed, with annotated areas along the route where the user exceeded the posted speed limit by more than the threshold amount.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for providing speed limit alerts in a vehicle, the method executed by one or more processors programmed to perform the method, the method comprising:
obtaining, at one or more processors at a client device, an indication of a threshold speed above a posted speed limit for providing an alert to a user; determining, by the one or more processors, a current location of the user when the user is travelling in a vehicle on a vehicle trip; obtaining, at the one or more processors, a posted speed limit for the vehicle based on the current location of the user; determining, by the one or more processors, a speed of the vehicle; when the vehicle exceeds the threshold speed above the posted speed limit:
providing, by the one or more processors, an audible alert to the user; andproviding, by the one or more processors, a visual alert to the user, wherein the visual alert includes a display on a user interface with an indication that the vehicle is exceeding the threshold speed above the posted speed limit; and providing, by the one or more processors, a map display to the user including map data corresponding to a route in which the user previously travelled during the vehicle trip, wherein the map display includes an indication of a proportion of a duration or distance of the route in which the user travelled above the posted speed limit; wherein the method is automatically initiated when the user begins travelling in the vehicle.