Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Sri Krishna Divya Pemmaraju

Joseph F Szczerba

Yi G Glaser

Daniel S Glaser

Michael A Wuergler

A system for initiating an automated slowdown procedure within a vehicle includes a system controller adapted to detect a request for initiation of an automated slowdown procedure, a human machine interface (HMI), wherein the system controller is adapted to prompt, via the HMI, the driver of the vehicle for verification to initiate the automated slowdown procedure, and a vehicle control module, wherein the system controller is adapted to initiate, via the vehicle control module, the automated slowdown procedure when either one of the driver provides, via the HMI, verification to initiate the automated slowdown procedure, or a response from the driver is not received within a pre-determined time.

Selective vehicle slowdown

A system for utilizing human machine interfaces to engage at least one passenger when a driver of a vehicle is distracted includes a system controller in communication with a plurality of passenger human machine interfaces and adapted to modify a display screen of a front seat passenger HMI, and an occupant monitoring system adapted to monitor the driver of the vehicle and the at least one passenger within the vehicle, the system controller adapted to determine, with a distracted driver algorithm within the system controller and data from the occupant monitoring system that the driver of the vehicle is distracted, and, when the driver of the vehicle is distracted, to actuate the plurality of passenger HMIs to engage the at least one passenger and encourage the at least one passenger to engage with the driver of the vehicle.

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Plymouth, MI, United States of America

Sri Krishna Divya Pemmaraju