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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Pujitha Gunaratne, Windsor, CA;
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Erlanger, KY (US);
Abstract
A driver-specific vehicle control method is provided that can adjust one or more vehicle control systems in response to a difference in current driver driving characteristics with respect to safe driver driving characteristics on the same roadway type and vehicle operating conditions. The method maintains a driver score for each driver of a vehicle, in the form of a set of the driver's driving characteristics scores for each different roadway type. The method, via a control apparatus, determines a current position of the vehicle on a roadway and the roadway features to select the appropriate driver score for comparison. When the driver's score exceeds a threshold difference from a safe driver score on the same roadway type, the method can adjust a control system parameter.