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US 11,961,020 B2Granted
Permitting or denying access to light electric vehicles based on detected or anticipated environmental conditions
AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsNicholas Foley, Michael Beckmann
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Abstract
This disclosure generally relates to a light electric vehicle. More specifically, this disclosure describes how to limit or restrict access to a light electric vehicle based on determined or anticipated environmental conditions. The disclosure also describes how to change one or more capabilities or operating parameters of the light electric vehicle based on determined and/or anticipated environmental conditions.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving environmental condition information for at least a first zone of a geographic area and a second zone of the geographic area;
- generating one or more restriction constraints for the first zone and one or more restrictions constraints for the second zone, wherein the one or more restriction constraints are based on the environmental condition information;
- transmitting instructions to a light electric vehicle, wherein the light electric vehicle comprises at least one of an electric assisted bicycle or an electric scooter, to implement the one or more restriction constraints for the first zone;
- determining that the light electric vehicle has entered the second zone;
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- transmitting, in response to determining that the light electric vehicle has entered the second zone, instructions for the light electric vehicle to implement the one or more restrictions constraints for the second zone, wherein the one or more restriction constraints comprise at least one of electronically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being reserved, electronically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being used, mechanically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being reserved, or mechanically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being used.
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A computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
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- one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media that store instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to cause the computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving environmental condition information for at least a first zone of a geographic area and a second zone of the geographic area;
- generating one or more restriction constraints for the first zone and one or more restrictions constraints for the second zone, wherein the one or more restriction constraints are based on the environmental condition information;
- transmitting instructions to a light electric vehicle, wherein the light electric vehicle comprises at least one of an electric assisted bicycle or an electric scooter, to implement the one or more restriction constraints for the first zone;
- determining that the light electric vehicle has entered the second zone;
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- transmitting, in response to determining that the light electric vehicle has entered the second zone, instructions for the light electric vehicle to implement the one or more restrictions constraints for the second zone, wherein the one or more restriction constraints comprise at least one of electronically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being reserved, electronically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being used, mechanically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being reserved, or mechanically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being used.
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One or more non-transitory computer readable media storing instructions that are executable by one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving environmental condition information for at least a first zone of a geographic area and a second zone of the geographic area;
- generating one or more restriction constraints for the first zone and one or more restrictions constraints for the second zone, wherein the one or more restriction constraints are based on the environmental condition information;
- transmitting instructions to a light electric vehicle, wherein the light electric vehicle comprises at least one of an electric assisted bicycle or an electric scooter, to implement the one or more restriction constraints for the first zone;
- determining that the light electric vehicle has entered the second zone;
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- transmitting, in response to determining that the light electric vehicle has entered the second zone, instructions for the light electric vehicle to implement the one or more restrictions constraints for the second zone, wherein the one or more restriction constraints comprise at least one of electronically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being reserved, electronically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being used, mechanically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being reserved, or mechanically prohibiting the light electric vehicle from being used.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.