Optimizing a route selection for a highly autonomous vehicle

A system of an autonomous vehicle which provides an automated driving service to a driver of the autonomous vehicle, the system comprising:

• an onboard vehicle computer system including a non-transitory memory storing computer code which, when executed by the onboard vehicle computer system causes the onboard vehicle computer system to:
• receive, via a user interface, preference data that describes which particular autonomous features the driver wants to be active;
• generate a set of candidate routes for a journey;
• aggregate external data digitally describing one or more external factors which limit an availability of the automated driving service while traveling along candidate routes included in the set of candidate routes, wherein each candidate route in the set of candidate routes has its own external data;
• determine a first value for an optimal degree of automation for traveling, by the driver, the journey based on the preference data describing which particular autonomous features the driver wants to be active;
• determine a plurality of second values each indicating a possible degree of automation for each candidate route included in the set of candidate routes based on the external data;
• and
• select an optimum route from the set of candidate routes according to the first value and the plurality of second values.

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory memory of an onboard vehicle computer system of an autonomous vehicle which provides an automated driving service to a driver of the autonomous vehicle, the computer system storing computer-executable code that, when executed by the onboard vehicle computer system, causes the onboard vehicle computer system to:

• receive, via a user interface, preference data that describes which particular autonomous features the driver wants to be active;
• generate a set of candidate routes for a journey;
• aggregate external data digitally describing one or more external factors which limit an availability of the automated driving service while traveling along candidate routes included in the set of candidate routes, wherein each candidate route in the set of candidate routes has its own external data;
• determine a first value for an optimal degree of automation for traveling, by the driver, the journey based on the preference data describing which particular autonomous features the driver wants to be active;
• determine a plurality of second values each indicating a possible degree of automation for each candidate route included in the set of candidate routes based on the external data;
• and
• select an optimum route from the set of candidate routes according to the first value and plurality of second values.