Vehicle parking control
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsLuke Niewiadomski, Lihui Chen, Li Xu
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Abstract
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to actuate movement of a vehicle at a first speed, identify a potentially available parking space in a vehicle direction of travel based on data received from at least one camera, then reduce a speed of the vehicle to a second speed that is less than the first speed while receiving data from at least one proximity sensor about the parking space, and actuate movement of the vehicle to a parking position in the parking space upon determining that the parking space is available based on the data from the at least one proximity sensor.
Claims17
A computer comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
- actuate movement of a vehicle at a first speed;
- identify a potentially available parking space in a vehicle direction of travel based on data received from at least one camera;
- then reduce a speed of the vehicle to a second speed that is less than the first speed while receiving data from at least one proximity sensor about the parking space;
- and
- actuate movement of the vehicle to a parking position in the parking space upon determining that the parking space is available based on the data from the at least one proximity sensor.
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle body;
- a propulsion attached to the vehicle body;
- a braking system attached to the vehicle body;
- a steering system attached to the vehicle body;
- at least one proximity sensor mounted to the vehicle body;
- and
- a computer communicatively coupled to the propulsion, the braking system, the steering system, and the at least one proximity sensor;
- wherein the computer is programmed to:
- instruct the propulsion to move the vehicle at a first speed;
- identify a potentially available parking space in a vehicle direction of travel;
- then instruct at least one of the propulsion or the braking system to reduce a speed of the vehicle to a second speed that is less than the first speed while receiving data from the at least one proximity sensor about the parking space;
- and
- instruct at least one of the propulsion, the braking system, or the steering system to move the vehicle to a parking position in the parking space upon determining that the parking space is available based on the data from the at least one proximity sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.