Self-driving vehicle systems and methods
AssigneeDrivent LLC
InventorsWesley Edward Schwie, Eric John Wengreen
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Abstract
A vehicle management system can include self-driving vehicles. Before entering a self-driving vehicle, a rider can use a remote computing device to select a pick-up location at which a self-driving vehicle will later pick up the rider. Detecting that the remote computing device is unable to communicate with the vehicle management system can trigger several responses configured to minimize the risk of a self-driving vehicle failing to pick up the rider.
Claims20
A non-transitory computer readable media, executable by a vehicle management processor, of a vehicle management system comprising a self-driving vehicle fleet including a plurality of self-driving vehicles, to communicatively couple the vehicle management system to a remote computing device;
- and the non-transitory computer readable media being configured to direct a first self-driving vehicle from the self-driving vehicle fleet, to drop-off a rider at a drop-off location.
A non-transitory computer readable media, executable by a vehicle management processor, of a vehicle management system, to select a predetermined pick-up location of a rider in response to a determination, by the vehicle management processor, that a remote computing device is no longer communicatively coupled to the vehicle management system, the non-transitory computer readable media being configured to cause the vehicle management system to cause a self-driving vehicle to drive proximate to the predetermined pick-up location in connection with the determination.
A non-transitory computer readable media, executable by a processor, of a remote computing device, configured to cause the processor to allow selection, on the remote computing device, of a rider pick-up location and a rider drop-off location in connection with a vehicle management system transmitting the rider pick-up location and the rider drop-off location to a self-driving vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.