Motor vehicle artificial intelligence expert system dangerous driving warning and control system and method

An integrated motor vehicle dangerous driving warning and control system comprising at least one electronic, specifically programmed, specialized device control communication computer machine including electronic artificial intelligence expert system decision making capability and further comprising:

• a) one or more motor vehicle electronic sensors that generate electronic signals derived from monitoring activities of the motor vehicle driver and/or passengers that may distract the driver including activities related to the use of cellular telephones and/or other wireless communication devices;
• b) one or more electronic communications transceiver assemblies for communications with electronic external sensor networks to receive information from external sensor network inputs to gather one or more of weather information, roadway danger information, traffic congestion information, and/or pedestrian congestion information;
• c) artificial intelligence expert system decision making capability based on said motor vehicle electronic sensor inputs and said electronic external sensor network inputs to derive control signals for warning the driver of dangerous driving situations;
• d) wherein artificial intelligence expert systems decision making is based on expert input with multiple propositional expert system programming instructions defining multiple ranges of degrees of danger for each of driver distraction and roadway and driving conditions variables and are based on expert knowledge and inference procedures defining conditional parameter relationships such as “If A, then B” or more complex variations or combinations of such relationships;
• and e) further wherein said artificial intelligence expert system decision making provides an integrated composite degree of danger driver warning index based on degree of danger input parameters for driver distraction and roadway and driving conditions with variable degrees of danger inputs.

An integrated motor vehicle dangerous driving warning and control method comprising at least one electronic, specifically programmed, specialized device control communication computer machine including electronic artificial intelligence expert system decision making capability and further comprising the following steps:

• a) the step of deriving electronic signals from one or more motor vehicle electronic sensors used for monitoring activities of the motor vehicle driver and/or passengers that may distract the driver including activities related to the use of cellular telephones and/or other wireless communication devices, b) the step of receiving information reporting one or more of weather conditions, roadway dangers, traffic congestion and/or pedestrian congestion via one or more electronic communications transceiver assemblies used for communications with electronic external sensor networks, c) the step of deriving control signals for controlling the use of said cellular telephone and/or other wireless communication devices and/or for warning the driver of dangerous driving situations based on artificial intelligence expert system decision making capability, said decisions based on said motor vehicle electronic sensor inputs and/or said electronic external sensor network inputs;
• d) the step of deriving sensor signals indicative of vehicle motion and cellular telephone usage by the driver of the motor vehicle;
• e) upon detection of defined vehicle motion and driver usage of a cellular telephone, the further step of deriving danger warning indices indicative of a degree of danger for driver continuing the use of the cellular telephone;
• and f) wherein said driver warning indices are based on artificial intelligence expert systems propositional computations derived from specific cellular telephone usage and driver distraction parameters together with parameters defining ranges of driving conditions.