Driving difficulty heat maps for autonomous vehicles

A system for generating a driving difficulty heat map for autonomous vehicles, the system comprising one or more processors configured to:

• input log data generated by a vehicle being driven in a manual driving mode for a segment of a route into a disengage model in order to generate an output identifying a likelihood of a vehicle driving in an autonomous driving mode requiring a disengage from the autonomous driving mode along the segment of the route, the log data being collected within a geographic area;
• generate a grid for the geographic area, the grid including a plurality of cells;
• assign the output to one of the plurality of cells;
• and
• use the plurality of cells and assigned output to generate the driving difficulty heat map for the geographic area and
• identifying, by the one or more processors, a geographic area to be excluded from a service area for the autonomous vehicles in real time based on the driving difficulty heatmap.

A non-transitory computing device-readable medium on which instructions are stored, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method of generating a driving difficulty heat map for autonomous vehicles, the method comprising:

• inputting log data generated by a vehicle being driven in a manual driving mode for a segment of a route into a disengage model in order to generate an output identifying a likelihood of a vehicle driving in an autonomous driving mode requiring a disengage from the autonomous driving mode along the segment of the route, the log data being collected within a geographic area;
• generating a grid for the geographic area, the grid including a plurality of cells;
• assigning the output to one of the plurality of cells;
• and
• using the plurality of cells and assigned output to generate the driving difficulty heat map for the geographic area;
• and
• identifying a geographic area to be excluded from a service area for the autonomous vehicles in real time based on the driving difficulty heat map.