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AssigneeState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
InventorsBlake Konrardy, Scott T. Christensen, Gregory Hayward, Scott Farris
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Methods and systems for autonomous vehicle recharging or refueling are disclosed. Autonomous vehicles may be automatically refueled by routing the vehicles to available fueling stations when not in operation, according to methods described herein. A fuel level within a tank of an autonomous vehicle may be monitored until it reaches a refueling threshold, at which point an on-board computer may generate a predicted use profile for the vehicle. Based upon the predicted use profile, a time and location for the vehicle to refuel the vehicle may be determined. In some embodiments, the vehicle may be controlled to automatically travel to a fueling station, refill a fuel tank, and return to its starting location in order to refuel when not in use.
A computer-implemented method for automatically refueling an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
A computer system for automatically refueling an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions for automatically refueling an autonomous vehicle that, when executed by at least one processor of a computer system, cause the computer system to:
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