Emergency evacuation using autonomous driving

An emergency evacuation system implementable in a vehicle, comprising:

• a memory configured to store one or more sets of instructions;
• and
• a processor coupled to execute the one or more sets of instructions stored in the memory, the processor, upon executing the one or more sets of instructions, configured to perform operations comprising:
• receiving wellness data of a driver;
• receiving motion data of the vehicle;
• determining an emergency severity based on the wellness data and the motion data;
• determining an evacuation plan based on the emergency severity and an autonomous-driving classification of the vehicle;
• and
• executing the evacuation plan such that the vehicle and the driver are evacuated from traffic with autonomous driving,
• wherein:
• the evacuation plan comprises a set of autonomous-driving modes allowed by the autonomous-driving classification of the vehicle, each of the autonomous-driving modes having a respectively different autonomous-driving level, the set of autonomous-driving modes comprising a highest autonomous-driving mode having a highest autonomous-driving level among the set of autonomous-driving modes,
• in an event that the emergency severity is determined to be life-threatening, the execution of the evacuation plan comprises attempting to execute the set of autonomous-driving modes in a descending order of the autonomous-driving levels until one of the set of autonomous-driving modes is executed successfully, and
• in an event that the emergency severity is determined to be less than life-threatening, the execution of the evacuation plan comprises attempting to execute at least a subset of the autonomous-driving modes in a descending order of the autonomous-driving levels until one of the subset of the autonomous-driving modes is executed successfully.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a processor, wellness data of a driver driving a vehicle in traffic;
• determining, by the processor, an emergency severity based on the wellness data;
• determining, by the processor, an evacuation plan based on the emergency severity and an autonomous-driving classification of the vehicle;
• and
• executing, by the processor, the evacuation plan such that the vehicle and the driver are evacuated from the traffic with autonomous driving,
• wherein the evacuation plan comprises a set of autonomous-driving modes allowed by the autonomous-driving classification of the vehicle, each of the autonomous-driving modes having a respectively different autonomous-driving level, and
• wherein the executing of the evacuation plan comprises attempting to execute the set of autonomous-driving modes in a descending order of the autonomous-driving levels until one of the set of autonomous-driving modes is executed successfully.