Patent ID: 7389178

Claim:
A system for analyzing and evaluating the performance and behavior of a driver of a vehicle, the system comprising: (a) a vehicle sensor utility operative to monitor the state of the vehicle and to output a raw data stream corresponding thereto; (b) a driving event handler operative to receive the raw data stream, detect from said raw data stream a plurality of distinctive patterns each associated with a corresponding driving event representation and to output a driving event string containing said driving event representations and their corresponding values; and (c) a maneuver detector operative to receive said driving event string, compare a sequence of said driving event representations comprised in the driving event string with patterns of driving maneuvers comprised in a database, to enable recognizing patterns of driving maneuvers in said driving event string and to construct and output a driving maneuver representation corresponding thereto, said driving maneuver representation containing a representation of at least one driving maneuver.