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US 12,606,215 B2Granted
Takeover of vehicle control
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDaniel Bauer, Peter W. A. Zegelaar, Guido Weitkus, Andreas Puetz, Patrick Piastowski, Benjamin Maus
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Abstract
Practicing a takeover of vehicle control of a vehicle 100 from an autonomous mode includes generating a takeover command for performing the takeover of the vehicle control without the existence of a reason for a takeover, and outputting the takeover command to a driver of the vehicle, wherein information about the non-existence of a reason for takeover is not output to the driver.
Claims8
A computer comprising instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to:
- identify an autonomously drivable section of a driving route of a vehicle in which the vehicle is permitted to operate in an autonomous mode;
- subdivide the autonomously drivable section into subsections;
- determine a number of subsections based on a length of the autonomously drivable section and a predefinable minimum length of the respective subsections;
- determine a current position of the vehicle along the driving route;
- while operating the vehicle in the autonomous mode, generate a takeover command for a driver of the vehicle upon completion of at least one of a predefinable driving distance and a predefinable driving time by the vehicle operating along the driving route;
- wherein the takeover command is output upon reaching a next subsection within the autonomously drivable section;
- and
- output the takeover command to the driver of the vehicle.
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A method, comprising:
- identifying an autonomously drivable section of a driving route of the vehicle in which the vehicle is permitted to operate in an autonomous mode;
- subdividing the autonomously drivable section into subsections;
- determining a number of subsections based on a length of the autonomously drivable section and a predefinable minimum length of the respective subsections;
- determining a current position of the vehicle along the driving route;
- while operating the vehicle in the autonomous mode, generating a takeover command for a driver of the vehicle upon completion of at least one of a predefinable driving distance and a predefinable driving time by the vehicle operating along the driving route;
- wherein the takeover command is output upon reaching a next subsection within the autonomously drivable section;
- and
- outputting the takeover command to the driver of the vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.