Patent ID: 9685007
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B60Q,B60R,G07C

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for managing a vehicle incident, the method comprising: monitoring, in response to a triggering event, a first vehicle having a first vehicle state including a respective condition of one or more components of the first vehicle; detecting, for the first vehicle, a vehicle incident including a change to the respective condition of at least one of the one or more components of the first vehicle; collecting, in response to detecting the vehicle incident for the first vehicle, incident circumstance information including a plurality of potential causes of the change to the respective condition of at least one of the one or more components of the first vehicle; and providing incident data based on at least a portion of the incident circumstance information and at least a portion of the change to the respective condition of at least one of the one or more components of the first vehicle; wherein the triggering event is an environmental stimuli including one or more selected from a group consisting of an audio trigger, a motion-based trigger, an impact trigger, or a visual trigger; wherein the first vehicle is configured to detect the environmental stimuli using a sensor array having one or more sensors selected from a group consisting of cameras, microphones, motion sensors, or impact sensors; wherein the vehicle incident includes an impact to the first vehicle from a second vehicle; and wherein collecting incident circumstance information further comprises obtaining, from the second vehicle, identification information of the second vehicle including one or more of a license plate number, vehicle identification number, or insurance policy number.