Autonomous seat sanitizing system for a vehicle

An autonomous seat sanitizing system for a vehicle, the system comprising one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing a vehicle seat sanitizing system control module including computer-readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:

• detect a person approaching a vehicle;
• responsive to detection of the person approaching the vehicle, determine a distance of the person from the vehicle;
• compare the distance of the person from the vehicle to a predetermined threshold distance;
• if the distance of the person from the vehicle is less than the predetermined threshold distance, determine if at least one seat in an occupant compartment of the vehicle is unoccupied;
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• if at least one seat in the vehicle occupant compartment is unoccupied, control operation of the vehicle to direct a sanitizing ultraviolet (UV) light onto the at least one unoccupied vehicle seat in the vehicle occupant compartment until a vehicle door is opened from an exterior of the vehicle, or until the distance of the person from the vehicle is no longer less than the predetermined threshold distance.