Vehicle and method of providing route guidance using public transportation
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
InventorsAh Rang LEE, Kyo Woong CHOO, Yeon Ji KIM, Jeong Hun KIM
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Abstract
A method of providing route guidance includes: acquiring, by a sensor, traveling environment information including at least a target time of arrival at a destination in a vehicle; determining, by a controller, whether the target time of arrival is satisfiable by the vehicle; determining, by the controller, whether the target time of arrival is satisfiable by a public transport connection upon determining that the target time of arrival is not satisfiable by the vehicle, and selecting, by the controller, a parking lot according to a criterion upon determining that the target time of arrival is satisfiable by the public transport connection.
Claims19
A method of providing route guidance, the method comprising steps of:
- acquiring, by a sensor, traveling environment information including at least a target time of arrival at a destination in a vehicle;
- determining, by a controller, whether the target time of arrival is satisfiable by the vehicle;
- determining, by the controller, whether the target time of arrival is satisfiable by a public transport connection upon determining that the target time of arrival is not satisfiable by the vehicle;
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- selecting, by the controller, a parking lot according to a criterion upon determining that the target time of arrival is satisfiable by the public transport connection.
A vehicle for providing route guidance, the vehicle comprising:
- a navigation system configured to determine whether a target time of arrival at a destination is satisfiable by the vehicle;
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- a controller configured to determine whether the target time of arrival is satisfiable by public transport connection upon determining that the target time of arrival is not satisfiable by the vehicle, and to select a parking lot according to a criterion upon determining that the target time of arrival is satisfiable by the public transport connection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.