Autonomous vehicle remote disablement
AssigneeState Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
InventorsRyan Gammelgard, Justin Davis
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Abstract
Autonomous vehicle methods and systems are described herein for communicating with an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle to remotely control operation of the vehicle, to detect and remove unauthorized passengers, to deliver loads, to receive registration information for the vehicle, to provide accessibility information to the vehicle, and/or to receive sensor or other environmental data to integrate with an electronic game or other extended reality experience.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for disabling an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
- in response to a determination by one or more processors of a remote entity that an autonomous vehicle configured to carry one or more passengers should be disabled because the vehicle is:
- (i) beginning to malfunction or (ii) driving erratically, receiving, at one or more processors in the vehicle, a communication from the remote entity;
- analyzing, at the one or more processors of the vehicle, the communication to determine that the communication comprises instructions to disable the vehicle;
- authenticating, at the one or more processors of the vehicle, the instructions by determining that the remote entity is authorized to disable the vehicle;
- and
- causing, by the one or more processors of the vehicle, the vehicle to become disabled based upon the communication and the authentication by ceasing to supply power to a component of an engine of the vehicle.
A computer system configured to disable an autonomous vehicle, the computer system comprising one or more local or remote processors, transceivers, and/or sensors configured to:
- in response to a determination by one or more processors of a remote entity that an autonomous vehicle configured to carry one or more passengers should be disabled because the vehicle is:
- (i) beginning to malfunction or (ii) driving erratically, receive a communication from the remote entity;
- analyze the communication to determine that the communication comprises instructions to disable the vehicle;
- authenticate the instructions by determining that the remote entity is authorized to disable the vehicle;
- and
- cause the vehicle to become disabled based upon the communication and the authentication by ceasing to supply power to a component of an engine of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.