Autonomous Vehicle Idle State Task Selection for Improved Computational Resource Usage

A computing system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media that collectively store instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
• determining that an autonomous vehicle is in an idle state, wherein the autonomous vehicle is online with a service entity;
• obtaining one or more vehicle parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle that is in the idle state;
• determining a task for the autonomous vehicle to perform while the autonomous vehicle is in the idle state based at least in part on at least one of the one or more vehicle parameters;
• and
• communicating data indicative of the task for the autonomous vehicle to perform while the autonomous vehicle is in the idle state.

One or more tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable media that collectively store instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• determining that an autonomous vehicle is in an idle state in which the autonomous vehicle is online with a service entity and is not assigned to a vehicle service assignment;
• obtaining one or more vehicle parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle that is in the idle state and one or more environmental parameters;
• identifying a plurality of candidate tasks for the autonomous vehicle;
• determining, from the plurality of candidate tasks, a task for the autonomous vehicle to perform while the autonomous vehicle is in the idle state based at least in part on at least one of the one or more vehicle parameters or the one or more environmental parameters;
• and
• communicating data indicative of the task for the autonomous vehicle to perform while the autonomous vehicle is in the idle state.