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AssigneeUnited Services Automobile Association (USAA)
InventorsEric David Schroeder, Donnette L Moncrief Brown, Snehal Desai, Manfred Amann, Timothy Frank Davison, Rachel Michelle Ballew, Kelsey Anne O'Brien, Sayeef Rahim
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Methods and systems for detecting and responding to impaired drivers are disclosed. The methods intelligently alert and route a user driver's vehicle to improve driving safety based on a predicted path of an impaired driver. The method shares data collected by vehicles in an area to determine which that a vehicle has an impaired driver. The method associates cones of certainty with such a vehicle to establish where the vehicle is likely to travel in the future. If the system determines there is a likelihood of accident based on a proximity to these cones of certainty, an alert can be presented to a user driver of a proximate vehicle. The method also generates routes that avoid or limit the user driver's exposure to the impaired driver's vehicle, such as by suggesting detours or automatically controlling the user driver's vehicle to avoid the path of the impaired driver.
A method of providing a driving route to a driver of a first vehicle, the method comprising:
A method of providing a driving route to a driver of a first vehicle, the method comprising:
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