External facing communications for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeWaymo LLC
InventorsMaria Moon, Philip Nemec, Ryan Powell, Bruce Mai
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Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure provide for displaying notifications on a display of an autonomous vehicle 100. In one instance, a distance from the vehicle to a destination of the vehicle or a passenger may be determined. When the distance is between a first distance and a second distance, a first notification 650 may be displayed on the display. The second distance may be less than the first distance. When the distance is less than the second distance, a second notification 660 may be displayed on the display. The second notification provides additional information not provided by the first notification.
Claims19
A vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous driving mode, the vehicle comprising:
- a perception system;
- a display;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- display on the display a first notification for one or more passengers waiting at a pickup location to be picked up by the vehicle;
- receive, from the perception system, information about at least one of a number of vehicles or a number of pedestrians detected by the perception system at the pickup location,
- determine context of an area in which the vehicle is driving based, at least in part, on the received information, the area including the pickup location;
- determine, based on the context, a threshold for a distance from the vehicle to the pickup location;
- and
- when the threshold has been met, display on the display a second notification that provides additional information for the one or more passengers that was not provided by the first notification.
A method of displaying a notification on a display of a vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous driving mode, the method comprising:
- displaying, by one or more processors of the vehicle, a first notification on the display for one or more passengers waiting at a pickup location to be picked up by the vehicle;
- receiving, by the one or more processors from a perception system of the vehicle, information about at least one of a number of vehicles or a number of pedestrians detected by the perception system at the pickup location;
- determining, by the one or more processors, context of an area in which the vehicle is driving based, at least in part, on the received information, the area including the pickup location;
- determining, by the one or more processors based on the context, a threshold for a distance from the vehicle to the pickup location;
- and
- when the threshold has been met, displaying, by the one or
- more processors, a second notification on the display that provides additional information for the one or more passengers that was not provided by the first notification.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.