Patent ID: 9672734
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G01C,G08G,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for determining lane congestion information among a plurality of vehicles on a multi-lane road, comprising: receiving, through a user input of a user device, a driving destination; sensing, with a sensor on a first vehicle containing the user device, the presence of a user device in a second vehicle within a vehicle awareness zone relative to the first vehicle; receiving, through a wireless radio of the user device of the first vehicle, vehicle data of the second vehicle; transmitting the vehicle data of the second vehicle to a remote server using the wireless radio of the user device in the first vehicle; and switching, in at least one of the user device and the remote server, the mode of operation between a first mode that provides a lane recommendation based on traffic conditions ahead of the first vehicle within the lane the first vehicle is traveling, and a second mode that provides a lane recommendation based on traffic conditions ahead of the first vehicle in a plurality of lanes, the lane recommendation in the second mode including a ranking of lanes based on a travel time estimate for each drivable lane.