Autonomous services vehicles
AssigneeUnited Services Automobile Association (USAA)
InventorRuthie D. Lyle
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Abstract
An autonomous vehicle may include equipment configured to provide one or more services to a user in the presence of the vehicle; a device processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving and executing dispatch instructions by autonomously driving to a location designated by a user; and providing the one or more services to the user at the designated location. The non-transitory computer readable medium may include instructions for syncing a cash state of the vehicle with the cash state of one or more other vehicles in the same fleet as the vehicle.
Claims20
An autonomous vehicle, comprising:
- equipment configured to provide one or more services to users in the presence of the vehicle;
- a device processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps:
- receiving and executing dispatch instructions by autonomously driving to a location designated by a user;
- and
- providing the one or more services to the user at the designated location;
- wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further includes instructions for communicating with one or more other vehicles in the same fleet as the vehicle and syncing a cash state of the vehicle with the cash state of one or more of the other vehicles in the same fleet as the vehicle.
A fleet of autonomous vehicles, comprising:
- a first vehicle including a first set of equipment configured to provide a first service to users in the presence of the vehicle;
- a second vehicle including a second set of equipment configured to provide a second service to users in the presence of the vehicle;
- wherein each vehicle of the fleet includes:
- a device processor;
- and
- a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps:
- receiving and executing dispatch instructions by autonomously driving to a location designated by a user;
- and
- providing the one or more services to the user at the designated location;
- wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium of at least one of the first vehicle and the second vehicle further includes instructions for determining when an on-board cash balance of the vehicle reaches a predetermined threshold, dedicating a predetermined portion of the cash balance to investment and making the dedicated portion of the funds unavailable for withdrawal from further users serviced by the vehicle.
A method of providing a service with an autonomous vehicle, comprising:
- the vehicle receiving an instruction for vehicle dispatch in response to a user request for service;
- the vehicle driving to a location designated by the user;
- providing one or more services to the user at the designated location;
- and
- determining when an on-board cash balance of the vehicle reaches a predetermined threshold, dedicating a predetermined portion of the cash balance to investment, and making the dedicated portion of the funds unavailable for withdrawal from further users serviced by the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.