Assessment and management of emotional state of a vehicle operator

A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium encoded with computer-accessible instructions that, in response to execution, cause at least one processor to perform operations for vehicular performance management comprising:

• acquiring, at a computing system having at least one processor, a condition metric representative of an emotional state of an operator of a vehicle;
• determining, at the computing system, if the condition metric satisfies a vehicular safety hazard criterion;
• configuring, at the computing system, a vehicle component for a predetermined operation in response to ascertaining that the condition metric satisfies the vehicular safety hazard criterion, wherein the vehicle component includes one or more of a content rendering unit, an in-cabin ambient control unit, or an operation control unit;
• rendering, by the computing system, the condition metric at a predetermined exterior area of the vehicle;
• determining, by the computing system, a travel time for a route between an origin and a destination;
• providing a recommendation for the route based at least in part on the behavior of the operator, wherein the route is configured to render within substantially the travel time;
• and
• adjusting the condition metric based on the recommendation.

A system for vehicular safety, comprising:

• at least one memory device having encoded thereon computer-accessible instructions;
• and
• at least one processor functionally coupled to the at least one memory device and configured, by the computer-accessible instructions,
• to access operational information indicative of performance of a vehicle;
• to access behavioral information indicative of behavior of an operator of the vehicle;
• to generate a condition metric representative of an emotional state of the operator based at least in part on at least a portion of the operational information and at least a portion of the behavioral information;
• to render the condition metric at a predetermined exterior area of the vehicle;
• to determine a travel time for a route between an origin and a destination;
• to provide a recommendation for the route based at least in part on the behavior of the operator, wherein the route is configured to render within substantially the travel time;
• and
• to adjust the condition metric based on the recommendation.