Adaptive guidance for group vehicular travel

A system comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• determine a preferred driving style, reflecting driving behavior for a driver of a vehicle and based on inputs from a plurality of vehicle systems including at least speed, steering, braking and acceleration, reflecting speed-limit compliance, lane change frequency, braking aggressiveness and acceleration aggressiveness, respectively, as components of the driving style;
• receive a plurality of wireless signals from elements within a wireless communication range, each signal indicating the behavior of one or more drivers of other vehicles within a predefined distance of the vehicle;
• determine, based on the wireless signals, whether one or more drivers are exhibiting behavior comparable to the driver of the vehicle based on predefined comparison thresholds;
• and
• responsive to determining that one or more drivers are exhibiting comparable behavior, provide guidance as to how to maneuver the vehicle to reach the vehicles driven by the one or more drivers exhibiting comparable behavior.

A computer implemented method comprising:

• determining a preferred driving style, reflecting driving behavior for a driver of a vehicle and based on inputs from a plurality of vehicle systems including at least speed, steering, braking and acceleration, reflecting speed-limit compliance, lane change frequency, braking aggressiveness and acceleration aggressiveness, respectively, as components of the driving style;
• receiving a plurality of wireless signals from elements within a wireless communication range, each signal indicating the behavior of one or more drivers of other vehicles within a predefined distance of the vehicle;
• determining, based on the wireless signals, whether one or more drivers are exhibiting behavior comparable to the driver of the vehicle based on predefined comparison thresholds;
• responsive to determining that one or more drivers are exhibiting comparable behavior, providing guidance as to how to maneuver the vehicle to reach the vehicles driven by the one or more drivers exhibiting comparable behavior;
• determining that at least one vehicle within the wireless communication range is an autonomous vehicle being driven in a style the autonomous vehicle is advertising as recommended;
• presenting an option to match vehicle behavior to the autonomous vehicle behavior;
• and
• responsive to election of the option, providing automatic or instructional guidance to match vehicle behavior to behavior broadcast by the autonomous vehicle.