Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Meiyappan Kannappa

Shounak Athavale

Sagar Kumar Regmi

Owen Carpenter

Candice Xu

Kevin Marx

Srilaxmi Kanna

Techniques and implementations pertaining to information sharing and user experience enhancement by networked vehicles are described. A method may involve receiving contextual data regarding each of one or more user contexts associated with a first vehicle of a community of vehicles from the first vehicle. The method may also involve determining that a second vehicle of the community of vehicles is in a first user context which matches one of the one or more user contexts associated with the first vehicle. The method may further involve transmitting information regarding the first user context to the second vehicle. A vehicle may determine that the vehicle will be in a user context similar or identical to at least one of one or more previous user contexts, and execute one or more actions pertaining to the user context.

Information sharing and user experience enhancement by context-aware vehicles

Methods and systems for detecting a medical emergency related to the driver of a vehicle are described. Various data, such as in-situ biophysical data of the driver, a medical history of the driver, and in-situ motion data of the vehicle, are employed to determine a possible medical emergency. In an event that a medical emergency is detected, the system determines the severity of the emergency and takes appropriate control of the vehicle. If the medical emergency is not life-threatening, the system may drive the vehicle to a safe area, park the vehicle, and then request help from emergency service providers (e.g., ambulance and police). If the medical emergency is severe (e.g., life-threatening), the system may transition the vehicle to an EMS (Emergency Medical Service)-privileged vehicle and autonomously drive the vehicle to an emergency service provider.

Emergency evacuation using autonomous driving

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