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US 12,002,366 B2Granted
Taxi system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMakoto Kakuchi, Osamu Izumida, Shunji Inoue, Takumi Hamajima, Mitsushi Kintaka, Toshihiro Andou, Masamitsu Takahira
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Abstract
A taxi system includes a taxi vehicle that runs autonomously with a user on board and transports the user, and at least one auxiliary vehicle capable of registering the taxi vehicle as a linkage target and running by following the taxi vehicle as the linkage target with luggage loaded in the at least one auxiliary vehicle.
Claims9
A taxi system, comprising:
- a taxi vehicle that runs autonomously with a user on board and transports the user;
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- at least one auxiliary vehicle capable of registering the taxi vehicle as a linkage target and running by following the taxi vehicle to be linked with luggage loaded in the at least one auxiliary vehicle, wherein after the use of the auxiliary vehicle ends, if a first destination which is a new destination of the taxi vehicle and a second destination which is a new destination of the auxiliary vehicle differ from each other, the taxi vehicle keeps the link with the auiliary vehicle and runs to the second destination to guide the auxiliary vehicle to the second desintation, and then runs to the firsst destination;
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- a management device that manages dispatching of the taxi vehicle and receives a usage request of the taxi vehicle from the user, wherein when the received usage request includes information on size of the luggage, the management device determines a number of the auxiliary vehicles to be dispatched to the user in accordance with the information on the size of the luggage, and dispatches the taxi vehicle and the auxiliary vehicle to the user with the determined number of the auxiliary vehicles linked with the taxi vehicle.
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