Giving Vehicles Brains:

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Giving Vehicles Brains Intelligent Vehicle
Identification
Team 3 Tyler Hinkle (Captain) Samuel
Blair Matthew Batdorf Bhavesh Joshi Anjuli Gupta
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Agenda

• Why is Intelligent Vehicle Identification needed?
• Solution
• Technical Details
• What added features could be included?
• Costs
• Impacts
• Future Improvements

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Problem Statement

• Intelligent Identification of Vehicles
• How do we outfit all vehicles?
• What will be the benefit?

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Problem Background

• 225 million cars on the road in the U.S.
• 712,000 Hit-and-Run vehicle accidents each year
• Cost of over 7 billion each year
• Accountability for ones driving
• Roads Safer
• Lower Insurance Costs

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What is already being done?

• Two current methods of identifying vehicles
  involved in accidents
• Eyewitness testimony
• Expensive products like the Digital Eyewitness
• Records video on a 3 minute loop
• Driver sees an accident and physically records it

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Alternatives

• Video Surveillance
• RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
• Magnetic Identifiers
• Contact Points
• Wire Frame Technology

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Work Done Toward Solution

• Designing
• Models and Simulations using automated programs
• Research
• Best transmitter in least amount of space
• RFID and Smart-Card Technology
• Contacted PennDOT and Lenel Systems
• Testing
• Simulations in various accidents and traffic
  conditions
• Assessment
• Retesting

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Solution

• Criteria
• Recommend that every vehicle has the device
• The device should be required by law to pass
  inspection
• It should comply with FCC standards and other
  existing systems and environments
• It should add a one-time-only cost to the driver
• It should reduce the number of Hit-and-Run type
  accidents

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Solution

• Device
• Smart-Card based system will be installed in the
  dashboard of every vehicle
• Vehicle recognition
• Smart Card system would have owner information
  stored on it
• Full Name
• Vehicle Identification Number
• Registration Number
• Model, Make, and Year
• Insurance Information
• Equipped with a transmitter and receiver
• Detects accidents by proximity, sonic activity,
  and seismic activity

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Solution

• After an accident, the device would emit the
  vehicles information and receive information of
  other cars involved
• Since both cars involved would send and receive
  information, a handshake occurs and information
  was successful exchanged
• Only law enforcement personnel should be able to
  view and print the incident record and vehicle
  information
• Other evidence such as skid marks and matching
  damage may also need to be investigated.

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Solution

• Added Benefits Included in Device
• Paying tolls
• Tollbooths would also be equipped with a RFID
  transponder
• Similar to EZpass
• Paying for parking
• System would have an optional prepaid balance
• Meters and Garages would have a Smart-Card reader
• It would record arrival/departure times and
  charge the account

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Technical Details

• RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
• Signals are coded for security
• Frequency range (30KHz -650KHz) to activate
  emission Burst of Active/Passive system for
  Tolls
• Tiny fraction of a second duration to complete
  handshake communication (retransmission for
  accuracy)
• Application Specific Integrated-Circuit
  technology (ASIC) to limit size
• Signal up to 5 Meters

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Costs

• Development and Testing
• 1 year 2000 hours x 25 engineers x 40 an hour
• 2 Million
• Scenario Testing Approximately 2 Million
• Manufacturing and Implementation
• 225 Million Vehicles X Cost of about 60 per
  device
• Cost of about 13.5 Billion
• Overhead cost of about 100 Million
• Cost/Benefit Analysis
• Total one-time-only cost of just over 13.5
  Billion
• Benefit of 7 Billion EACH year for not-at-fault
  drivers

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Impacts

• Environmental
• Waste
• Effects of Radio Frequency Transmission
• Social
• Ethics
• Privacy
• Signal Restriction
• Should not be used to monitor speeding
• Obligations
• Help discourage dishonest driving

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Summary

• If our recommendation would be adopted then every
  vehicle should be equipped with a single device
  that
• Identifies the owner of the vehicle
• Holds the owner responsible for driving habits
• Optional features of automatically paying tolls
  and parking fees
• Government Involvement Essential
• Everyone should have it for the system to work
• Phase in plan

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Future Work

• Additions to system
• Soon could be used to buy products and services
• Gasoline
• Maintenance
• Convenience stores
• Lemon-law
• Could also record vehicle history
• CarFAX
• Warranty work
• Recall record

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Questions?