Information processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory storage medium

A method executed by an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:

• when determining that a degree of dirt of a vehicle exceeds a predetermined first threshold value, selecting at least one vehicle washing facility from among a plurality of vehicle washing facilities, based on an attribute of a user of the vehicle;
• and
• notifying the user of guidance information for guiding the user to the selected vehicle washing facility;
• wherein:
• the predetermined first threshold value is determined in advance for each of a plurality of destinations;
• and
• the method further comprises
• specifying a future destination of the user from an application that enables creation of a schedule using Internet, and
• determining the degree of the dirt of the vehicle using a predetermined first threshold value corresponding to the specified future destination;
• wherein the plurality of vehicle washing facilities offer a plurality of vehicle washing courses,
• a vehicle washing time of each of the vehicle washing courses and a degree of dirt that each of the vehicle washing courses is able to deal with are determined in advance, and the method further comprising:
• acquiring an end time of vehicle washing desired by the user;
• selecting the vehicle washing facility that is able to provide a vehicle washing course that is able to deal with the dirt of the vehicle and that ends vehicle washing by the end time, from among the vehicle washing courses;
• and
• executing machine learning on whether to notify the guidance information before or after a time of execution of a future going-outside in which the vehicle moves a distance that exceeds a predetermined second threshold value, based on a before-after relationship between a time of execution of a going-outside in which the vehicle moves a distance that exceeds the predetermined second threshold value and a time of execution of vehicle washing within a predetermined period before and after the time of the execution of the going-outside.

A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors and that cause the one or more processors to perform functions, the functions comprising:

• when determining that a degree of dirt of a vehicle exceeds a predetermined first threshold value, selecting at least one vehicle washing facility from among a plurality of vehicle washing facilities, based on an attribute of a user of the vehicle;
• and
• notifying the user of guidance information for guiding the user to the selected vehicle washing facility;
• wherein:
• the predetermined first threshold value is determined in advance for each of a plurality of destinations, and
• the functions further comprise:
• specifying a future destination of the user from an application that enables creation of a schedule using Internet;
• and
• determining the degree of the dirt of the vehicle using the predetermined first threshold value corresponding to the specified future destination;
• wherein the plurality of vehicle washing facilities offer a plurality of vehicle washing courses,
• a vehicle washing time of each of the vehicle washing courses and a degree of dirt that each of the vehicle washing courses is able to deal with are determined in advance, and the functions further comprise:
• acquiring an end time of vehicle washing desired by the user;
• selecting the vehicle washing facility that is able to provide a vehicle washing course that is able to deal with the dirt of the vehicle and that ends vehicle washing by the end time, from among the vehicle washing courses;
• and
• executing machine learning on whether to notify the guidance information before or after a time of execution of a future going-outside in which the vehicle moves a distance that exceeds a predetermined second threshold value, based on a before-after relationship between a time of execution of a going-outside in which the vehicle moves a distance that exceeds the predetermined second threshold value and a time of execution of vehicle washing within a predetermined period before and after the time of the execution of the going-outside.