Selective control transition based on situational awareness

A vehicle, comprising:

• one or more sensors;
• an integrated circuit, coupled to the one or more sensors, configured to:
• acquire, using the one or more sensors, a measurement within an environment that is external to the electronic device, wherein the measurement provides information associated with a person located in a driver's position in a vehicle, and wherein the measurement comprises a non-contact measurement;
• assess situational awareness of the person based at least in part on the measurement and a change in a vital sign of the person corresponding to a change in a driving condition associated with operation of the vehicle;
• receive a request associated with a partial or fully autonomous vehicle application to transition to manual control of the vehicle;
• and
• selectively provide a recommendation to the partial or fully autonomous vehicle application to transition to manual control of the vehicle based at least in part on the request and the situational awareness.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for use in conjunction with an electronic device, the computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions, wherein, when executed by the computer system, the program instructions cause the computer system to perform one or more operations comprising:

• acquiring, using one or more sensors, a measurement within an environment that is external to the electronic device, wherein the measurement provides information associated with a person located in a driver's position in a vehicle, and wherein the measurement comprises a non-contact measurement;
• assessing situational awareness of the person based at least in part on the measurement and a change in a vital sign of the person corresponding to a change in a driving condition associated with operation of the vehicle;
• receiving a request associated with a partial or fully autonomous vehicle application to transition to manual control of the vehicle;
• and
• selectively providing a recommendation to the partial or fully autonomous vehicle application to transition to manual control of the vehicle based at least in part on the request and the situational awareness.

A method for selectively providing a recommendation, comprising:

• by an electronic device:
• acquiring, using one or more sensors, a measurement within an environment that is external to the electronic device, wherein the measurement provides information associated with a person located in a driver's position in a vehicle, and wherein the measurement comprises a non-contact measurement;
• assessing situational awareness of the person based at least in part on the measurement and a change in a vital sign of the person corresponding to a change in a driving condition associated with operation of the vehicle;
• receiving a request associated with a partial or fully autonomous vehicle application to transition to manual control of the vehicle;
• and
• selectively providing the recommendation to the partial or fully autonomous vehicle application to transition to manual control of the vehicle based at least in part on the request and the situational awareness.