Providing roadside assistance to vehicles
AssigneeGM Cruise Holdings LLC
InventorGovindarajan Krishnamurthi
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Abstract
Systems and methods provide for enabling an autonomous vehicle to provide road assistance to a vehicle. The autonomous vehicle can analyze sensor data about the vehicle captured by one or more of its sensors as it navigates a route. Based on the analysis of the sensor data, the autonomous vehicle can determine that the vehicle needs maintenance. The autonomous vehicle can proactively send a request, based on the determination, to initiate a towing mechanism to tow the vehicle. Based on receiving an acceptance of the request from the vehicle, the autonomous vehicle can activate the towing mechanism.
Claims17
A method of towing vehicles comprising:
- analyzing sensor data about a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is captured by a sensor of an autonomous vehicle navigating a route;
- determining, based on analyzing the sensor data, that the vehicle needs maintenance, wherein the determination that the vehicle needs maintenance is based on the analysis of the sensor data being in accordance with one or more models that identify a circumstance indicating an issue being experienced by the vehicle;
- based on the determination, proactively sending a request to initiate a towing mechanism to tow the vehicle;
- and
- activating the towing mechanism based on receiving an acceptance of the request from the vehicle.
A system comprising:
- one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle;
- and
- a processor for executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor executes:
- analyzing sensor data about a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is captured by a sensor of an autonomous vehicle navigating a route;
- determining, based on analyzing the sensor data, that the vehicle needs maintenance, wherein the determination that the vehicle needs maintenance is based on the analysis of the sensor data being in accordance with one or more models that identify a circumstance indicating an issue being experienced by the vehicle;
- based on the determination, proactively sending a request to initiate a towing mechanism to tow the vehicle;
- and
- activating the towing mechanism based on receiving an acceptance of the request from the vehicle.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, the instructions, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to:
- analyze sensor data about a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is captured by a sensor of an autonomous vehicle navigating a route;
- determine, based on analyzing the sensor data, that the vehicle needs maintenance, wherein the determination that the vehicle needs maintenance is based on the analysis of the sensor data being in accordance with one or more models that identify a circumstance indicating an issue being experienced by the vehicle;
- based on the determination, proactively send a request to initiate a towing mechanism to tow the vehicle;
- and
- activate the towing mechanism based on receiving an acceptance of the request from the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.