Systems and methods for matching transportation requestor devices with autonomous vehicles

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• determining a request for transportation of a requestor associated with a requestor device to travel to a destination;
• determining a level of interest of the requestor to travel to the destination using an autonomous vehicle (AV);
• determining that a location associated with the transportation requestor is outside of an AV pickup zone within which the AV is permitted to pick up the requestor;
• based on the determined level of interest of the requestor meeting a minimum threshold level of interest, calculating a distance for the requestor to travel to reach the AV pickup zone from the location;
• providing routing instructions to the requestor device that direct the requestor to reach the AV pickup zone from the location, the routing instructions including the calculated distance for the requestor to reach the AV pickup zone;
• and
• providing instructions to the AV to travel to the AV pickup zone, the instructions including autonomous navigation system commands that direct the AV to autonomously navigate to the AV pickup zone, wherein the AV executes the autonomous navigation system commands to navigate to the AV pickup zone.

A computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

• determine a request for transportation of a requestor associated with a requestor device to travel to a destination;
• determine a level of interest of the requestor to travel to the destination using an autonomous vehicle (AV);
• determine that a location associated with the transportation requestor is outside of an AV pickup zone within which the AV is permitted to pick up the requestor;
• based on the determined level of interest of the requestor meeting a minimum threshold level of interest, calculate a distance for the requestor to travel to reach the AV pickup zone from the location;
• provide routing instructions to the requestor device that direct the requestor to reach the AV pickup zone from the location, the routing instructions including the calculated distance for the requestor to reach the AV pickup zone;
• and
• provide instructions to the AV to travel to the AV pickup zone, the instructions including autonomous navigation system commands that direct the AV to autonomously navigate to the AV pickup zone, wherein the AV executes the autonomous navigation system commands to navigate to the AV pickup zone.