Cognitive traffic light pattern analysis and notification

A method for providing a traffic light status notification to a driver, comprising:

• determining that a first vehicle, operated by the driver, is approaching a traffic light;
• receiving, by the first vehicle, traffic light status data from one or more second vehicles in a vicinity of the traffic light via vehicle-to-vehicle communication;
• obtaining a traffic light pattern for the traffic light from a traffic light pattern database, wherein the traffic light pattern is created by analyzing videos collected by a plurality of vehicles, each of the videos including a time period covering an entire time the traffic light is visible on at least one camera of the plurality of vehicles;
• determining a predicted status of the traffic light at a time when the first vehicle will reach the traffic light based on a speed of the first vehicle, the traffic light status data, and the traffic light pattern;
• and
• notifying the driver of the predicted status of the traffic light, wherein notifying the driver includes providing the driver with a suggested change to an operating speed of the first vehicle based on the predicted status of the traffic light.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith the program instructions executable by a computer processor to cause the computer processor to perform a method, comprising:

• determining that a first vehicle, operated by a driver, is approaching a traffic light;
• receiving, by the first vehicle, traffic light status data from one or more second vehicles in a vicinity of the traffic light via vehicle-to-vehicle communication;
• obtaining a traffic light pattern for the traffic light from a traffic light pattern database, wherein the traffic light pattern is created by analyzing videos collected by a plurality of vehicles, each of the videos including a time period covering an entire time the traffic light is visible on at least one camera of the plurality of vehicles;
• determining a predicted status of the traffic light at a time when the first vehicle will reach the traffic light based on a speed of the first vehicle, the traffic light status data, and the traffic light pattern;
• and
• notifying the driver of the predicted status of the traffic light, wherein notifying the driver includes providing the driver with a suggested change to an operating speed of the first vehicle based on the predicted status of the traffic light.