Systems and methods for providing tire change information
AssigneeToyota Motor North America, Inc.
InventorEquan Tompkins
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Abstract
A system for providing tire change information is provided. The system includes a processor, and a memory module storing one or more processor-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to: determine a number of vehicles within a first region that requested a tire change, determine whether the number of vehicles is greater than a first threshold number, and provide information about a first tire change group discount to the vehicles that requested the tire change in response to determining that the number of vehicles is greater than the first threshold number.
Claims10
A system comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory module storing one or more processor-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- receive a plurality of tire change requests, each tire change request of the plurality of tire change requests being transmitted upon determining a tire change is required based on an image of a tire of each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles obtained from an image sensor of the each vehicle;
- determine respective locations of the plurality of vehicles;
- determine a number of first vehicles among the plurality of vehicles that are located in a first region and transmitted a tire change request from the first region;
- determine whether the number of the first vehicles is greater than a first threshold number;
- provide information about a first tire change group discount to the first vehicles in response to determining that the number of vehicles is greater than the first threshold number;
- determine a tire change location that has a least average traveling distance from the locations of the first vehicles to travel to the tire change location;
- transmit the tire change location to the first vehicles;
- and
- instruct the first vehicles to display the information on a screen.
A method for providing tire change information, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of tire change requests, each tire change request of the plurality of tire change requests being transmitted upon determining a tire change is required based on an image of a tire of each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles obtained from an image sensor of the each vehicle;
- determining respective locations of the plurality of vehicles;
- determining a number of first vehicles among the plurality of vehicles that are located in a first region and transmitted a tire change request from the first region;
- determining whether the number of the first vehicles is greater than a first threshold number;
- providing information about a first tire change group discount to the first vehicles in response to determining that the number of the first vehicles is greater than the first threshold number;
- determining a tire change location that has a least average traveling distance from the locations of the first vehicles to travel to the tire change location;
- transmitting the tire change location to the first vehicles;
- and
- instructing the first vehicles that transmitted tire change requests to display the information on a screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.