Method and System for Determining Road Conditions Based on Driver Data

摘要

A system and method for determining adverse/dangerous road conditions based on sensor data received from a vehicle and generating alerts for other vehicles which may encounter the same condition. The system receives sensor data from a vehicle and evaluates the data to determine if the vehicle encountered a potentially dangerous road condition. The system may apply one or more thresholds to the data, where the thresholds are designed to detect various sudden movements of the vehicle. The system may monitor the location associated with the potentially dangerous road condition and evaluate sensor data from one or more other vehicles that drive near the same location to determine whether they encounter a similar condition. The system may generate one or more alerts and transmit those alerts to vehicles that are approaching the location of the dangerous condition using location data provided by the approaching vehicles.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at one or more computer processors, a first set of sensor data from one or more sensors associated with a first vehicle, the first set of sensor data comprising locational data of the first vehicle and at least one other parameter; comparing, at the one or more computer processors, the first set of sensor data with at least one threshold from a first set of thresholds; monitoring a location associated with the locational data of the first vehicle for a first time period if the first set of sensor data exceeds the at least one threshold from the first set of thresholds, wherein monitoring a location comprises receiving, using the one or more computer processors, a second set of sensor data associated with a second vehicle that passes within a predetermined distance of the location during the first time period; comparing, at the one or more computer processors, the second set of sensor data with at least one threshold from a second set of thresholds; incrementing a counter if the second set of sensor data exceeds the at least one threshold from the second set of thresholds; generating, at the one or more computer processors, at least one alert if the counter exceeds a first value; receiving, at the one or more computer processors, a third set of sensor data associated with a third vehicle, the third set of sensor data comprising locational data of the third vehicle; and transmitting, from the one or more computer processors, the at least one alert to a communications device associated with the third vehicle based on the third set of sensor data.