US 11,308,785 B1 · Systems and methods for the mitigation of drowsy or sleepy driving

Abstract

Systems and methods for mitigating drowsy and/or sleepy driving may include utilizing vehicle-related and wellness-related telematics to detect and/or predict drowsy and/or sleepy driving states of a driver of a vehicle and take mitigating actions to thereby increase the safety of the driver and other people and/or vehicles in the vicinity of the driver's vehicle. Vehicle-related telematics data and wellness-related telematics data (which may include sleep data) may be collected via sensors that disposed on-board the vehicle, in the vehicle's environment, and at a personal health/fitness tracker of the driver. The collected data may be collectively interpreted to detect, predict, and/or otherwise discover information relating to a drowsy and/or sleepy state of the driver, and one or more mitigating actions may be automatically performed based on the discovered information to thereby mitigate undesirable effects of drowsy/sleepy driving and increase driving safety.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing first computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle, vehicle operations data indicative of an operation of the vehicle by an operator;
receiving, from an operator computing device associated with the operator, sleep data associated with the operator, wherein the sleep data is indicative of at least one of a quality of sleep or a duration of sleep;
generating, based at least in part on the sleep data and the vehicle operations data, a risk profile associated with the operator, wherein the risk profile includes a metric indicating tendency of the operator to exhibit dangerous driving behavior;
determining, based at least in part on the risk profile, an adjustment to an insurance policy associated with the operator;
and
modifying the insurance policy based at least in part on the adjustment.

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One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a vehicle computing device associated with a vehicle, vehicle operations data indicative of an operation of the vehicle by an operator;
receiving, from an operator computing device associated with the operator, sleep data associated with the operator, wherein the sleep data is indicative of at least one of a quality of sleep or a duration of sleep;
and
generating, based at least in part on the sleep data and the vehicle operations data, a risk profile associated with the operator, wherein the risk profile is associated with dangerous driving behavior of the operator;
and
modifying an insurance policy associated with the operator based at least in part on the risk profile.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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