State-Based Autonomous-Vehicle Operations

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• determining, by a computing system and based at least in part on one or more actions of a passenger associated with a trip of an autonomous vehicle, a current state of the trip from amongst a plurality of different predefined states of the trip;
• identifying, by the computing system and based at least in part on the current state of the trip, one or more computing devices associated with the passenger;
• generating, by the computing system and based at least in part on the current state of the trip, data describing one or more interfaces for display by the one or more computing devices separate from the autonomous vehicle associated with the passenger;
• and
• communicating, by the computing system and to the one or more computing devices separate from the autonomous vehicle associated with the passenger, the data describing the one or more interfaces for display.

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• determining, from amongst a plurality of different predefined states of a trip of an autonomous vehicle, a current state of the trip;
• generating, based at least in part on the current state of the trip, data describing one or more interfaces for display by one or more computing devices associated with a passenger;
• communicating, to the one or more computing devices associated with the passenger, the data describing the one or more interfaces for display;
• receiving, from at least one of the one or more computing devices associated with the passenger, data indicating the passenger has invoked, via at least one of the one or more interfaces, a function of the autonomous vehicle upon which a next state of the plurality of different predefined states of the trip depends;
• and
• responsive to receiving the data indicating the passenger has invoked the function of the autonomous vehicle upon which the next state depends:
• generating based at least in part on the current state of the trip, data describing one or more interfaces for display by the one or more computing devices separate from the autonomous vehicle associated with the passenger;
• and
• communicating to the one or more computing devices separate from the autonomous vehicle associated with the passenger, the data describing the one or more interfaces for display.

One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

• determining, based at least in part on one or more actions, of a passenger associated with a trip of an autonomous vehicle, performed via an interface of a first computing device associated with the passenger, a current state of the trip from amongst a plurality of different predefined states of the trip;
• identifying, based at least in part on the current state of the trip, a second computing device associated with the passenger;
• generating, based at least in part on the current state of the trip:
• data describing one or more interfaces for display by the first computing device separate from the autonomous vehicle associated with the passenger, and data describing one or more interfaces for display by the second computing device associated with the passenger;
• communicating, to the first computing device separate from the autonomous vehicle associated with the passenger, the data describing the one or more interfaces for display by the first computing device associated with the passenger;
• and
• communicating, to the second computing device associated with the passenger, the data describing the one or more interfaces for display by the second computing device associated with the passenger.