Activity and mood-based routing for autonomous vehicles
This addresses the problem of improving daily travel comfort for users of autonomous vehicles, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing routing methods by adding new criteria.
The paper tackles the problem of driving-related stress by proposing activity- and mood-based routing criteria for autonomous vehicles to enhance the overall driving experience, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
A significant amount of our daily lives is dedicated to driving, leading to an unavoidable exposure to driving-related stress. The rise of autonomous vehicles will likely lessen the extent of this stress and enhance the routine traveling experience. Yet, no matter how diverse they may be, current routing criteria are limited to considering only the passive preferences of a vehicle's users. Thus, to enhance the overall driving experience in autonomous vehicles, we advocate here for the diversification of routing criteria, by additionally emphasizing activity- and mood-based requirements.