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US 2019/0056742 A1Published application
Autonomous vehicle operated with safety augmentation
AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJustin Wayne Ho, Noah Zych
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Abstract
An autonomous vehicle is operable to follow a primary trajectory that forms a portion of a route. While controlling the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle calculates a failsafe trajectory to follow as a response to a predetermined type of event.
Claims20
A network service system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a memory to store a set of instructions;
- wherein the one or more processors access the set of instructions to:
- communicate with an autonomous vehicle to determine information about a failsafe event that causes the autonomous vehicle to stop at a roadside location while providing a transport service to a rider;
- and
- select a subsequent vehicle to complete the transport service for the rider based at least in part on the determined information about the failsafe event.
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A transport system comprising:
- a network computer system;
- an autonomous vehicle configured to:
- while providing a transport service to a rider, (i) implement a failsafe trajectory to safely stop at a roadside as a response to a disabling failure or condition in which the autonomous vehicle is precluded from operating beyond a threshold level of operability;
- and (ii) transmit one or more communications to the network computer system that include information about the disabling failure or condition;
- wherein the network computer system selects a subsequent vehicle to complete the transport service for the rider based at least in part on the information about the disabling failure or condition.
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An autonomous vehicle system comprising:
- one or more controllers, the one or more controllers including logic to:
- while the autonomous vehicle provides a transport service to a rider, respond to a disabling failure or condition in which the autonomous vehicle is precluded from operating beyond a threshold level of operability, by (i) implementing a failsafe trajectory to reach a roadside location to safely stop and (ii) transmitting one or more communications to a network service to cause the network service to select another vehicle to complete the transport service for the rider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.