State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

Thomas Hilton Jannusch

Scott T Christensen

Jaime Skaggs

Tim G Sanidas

Alexander Cardona

James P Rodriguez

Timothy J Nickel

Karthikeyan Srinivasan

David Dohrmann

Pamela Rearden

Systems and methods for determining the effectiveness of vehicle safety features are provided. Vehicle build information (VBI) for vehicles manufactured by a plurality of OEMs may be obtained. The VBI may contain OEM-specific terminology for smart safety features associated with each vehicle. The obtained VBI may be analyzed to generate an ontology model mapping each feature to any OEM-specific terminology associated with the feature. The ontology model may be applied to the VBI to generate translated VBI for each vehicle, such that the OEM-specific terminology associated with each feature is replaced with OEM-agnostic terminology for the feature. Vehicle accident record information may be obtained for each vehicle, including, e.g., the number, frequency, severity, etc. of accidents associated with each vehicle. Using the OEM-agnostic terminology for each feature associated with each vehicle and the vehicle accident information for each vehicle, an effectiveness score associated with each feature may be calculated.

Systems and methods of determining effectiveness of vehicle safety features

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McLean, IL, United States of America

Thomas Hilton Jannusch