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US 2022/0118941 A1Published application
Systems And Methods For Vehicle Movement Parental Control With Child Detection
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsCynthia M. Neubecker, Robert Parenti, Brad Ignaczak
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Abstract
Vehicle movement parental control with child detection systems and methods are disclosed herein. An example method can include determining presence of a known child in a vehicle, activating a drive lock mode of the vehicle to prevent the vehicle from being driven based on the presence of the known child, providing a request for authorization to allow the vehicle to be driven, and continuing or disabling use of the drive lock mode of the vehicle based upon a response to the request for authorization.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining a presence of a known child in a vehicle;
- activating, based on the presence of the known child, a drive lock mode of the vehicle to prevent the vehicle from being driven;
- providing, based on the vehicle being in the drive lock mode, a request for authorization to allow the vehicle to be driven;
- and
- continuing or disabling, based upon a response to the request for authorization, the drive lock mode of the vehicle.
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A vehicle computer, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory for storing instructions, the processor executing the instructions to:
- determine a presence of a known child in a vehicle;
- activate, based on the presence of the known child, a drive lock mode of the vehicle to prevent the vehicle from being driven;
- provide, based on the vehicle being in the drive lock mode, a request for authorization to allow the vehicle to be driven;
- and
- continue or disable, based upon a response to the request for authorization, the drive lock mode of the vehicle.
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A method, comprising:
- determining a presence of a known child in a vehicle;
- activating a drive lock mode of the vehicle to prevent the vehicle from being driven based on the presence of the known child;
- providing a request for authorization to a mobile device or a human machine interface of the vehicle to allow the vehicle to be driven;
- receiving a response to the request from the mobile device or the human machine interface of the vehicle;
- and
- continuing or disabling use of the drive lock mode of the vehicle based upon the response.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.