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.
Utilizing HMI with distracted driver
2025-05-06
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B60Q ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL , Anordnung von Signal- oder Beleuchtungsvorrichtungen, deren Einbau oder Halterung oder deren Schaltkreise bei Fahrzeugen allgemein |
Utilizing human-machine interface HMI when driver is distracted
European Patent Office | 2025
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