Self-driving vehicle systems and methods

A maintenance system configured to be used with a self-driving vehicle, the maintenance system comprising:

• a smoke detection system coupled to the self-driving vehicle and configured to detect smoke inside a portion of the self-driving vehicle;
• a vehicle management system configured to autonomously drive the self-driving vehicle,
• wherein the smoke is combustion smoke, and
• wherein the smoke detection system coupled to the self-driving vehicle comprises an ionization smoke detector and an optical smoke detector;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable media, executable by a processor selected from the group consisting of the ionization smoke detector, the optical smoke detector, and combinations thereof, the non-transitory computer-readable media configured to cause the processor to carry out the step of detecting the combustion smoke or an electronic cigarette aerosol by analyzing a first particle size of an aerosol and determining that the first particle size is greater than a first predetermined threshold.

A maintenance system configured to be used with a self-driving vehicle, the maintenance system comprising:

• a smoke detection system coupled to the self-driving vehicle;
• a vehicle management system configured to autonomously drive the self-driving vehicle;
• a communication system;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable media, executable by a processor selected from the group consisting of the smoke detection system, the communication system, and combinations thereof, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable media is configured to cause the processor to perform the steps of:
• detecting, via the smoke detection system, smoke inside a portion of the self-driving vehicle,
• sending, via the communication system, a first wireless communication to a remote computing device in response to the smoke detection system detecting the smoke inside the self-driving vehicle,
• analyzing, via the smoke detection system, a particle size of the smoke,
• sending, via the communication system, the first wireless communication identifying the smoke as an aerosol in response to the smoke detection system determining that the particle size is greater than a predetermined threshold, and
• sending, via the communication system, the first wireless communication identifying the smoke as combustion smoke in response to the smoke detection system determining that the particle size is less than the predetermined threshold.

A maintenance system configured to be used with a self-driving vehicle, the maintenance system comprising:

• a smoke detection system coupled to the self-driving vehicle;
• a vehicle management system configured to autonomously drive the self-driving vehicle;
• a communication system;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable media executable by a processor selected from the group consisting of the smoke detection system, the communication system, and combinations thereof, wherein the non-transitory computer-readable media is configured to cause the processor to perform the steps of:
• detecting, via the smoke detection system, smoke inside a portion of the self-driving vehicle,
• sending, via the communication system, a first wireless communication to a remote computing device in response to the smoke detection system detecting the smoke,
• analyzing, via the smoke detection system, a particle size of the smoke,
• sending, via the communication system, the first wireless communication identifying the smoke as an aerosol in response to the smoke detection system determining that the particle size is greater than a predetermined threshold, and
• sending, via the communication system, the first wireless communication identifying the smoke as combustion smoke in response to the smoke detection system determining that the particle size is less than the predetermined threshold.

A maintenance system configured to be used with a self-driving vehicle, the maintenance system comprising:

• a smoke detection system coupled to the self-driving vehicle, the smoke detection system comprising a first camera and an image analysis system;
• a vehicle management system configured to autonomously drive the self-driving vehicle;
• a memory having a first baseline image and a second image;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable media executable by a processor selected from the group consisting of the smoke detection system, the image analysis system, and combinations thereof, the non-transitory computer-readable media configured to cause the processor to perform the steps of:
• detecting, via the smoke detection system, smoke inside a portion of the self-driving vehicle, and
• detecting, via the image analysis system, the smoke inside the self-driving vehicle by comparing the first baseline image taken by the first camera of an interior of the self-driving vehicle to the second image taken by the first camera of the interior.

A maintenance system configured to be used with a self-driving vehicle, the maintenance system comprising:

• a smoke detection system coupled to the self-driving vehicle;
• a vehicle management system configured to autonomously drive the self-driving vehicle;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable media executable by a processor of the smoke detection system, the non-transitory computer-readable media configured to perform the steps of:
• detecting, via the smoke detection system, smoke inside a portion of the self-driving vehicle,
• wherein the vehicle management system is configured to receive a first location of a service area configured to clean the self-driving vehicle, and the vehicle management system is configured to drive the self-driving vehicle to the service area in response to the smoke detection system detecting the smoke inside the self-driving vehicle, and
• analyzing, via the smoke detection system, a particle size of the smoke to determine if the particle size is smaller than a predetermined threshold,
• wherein the vehicle management system is configured to drive the self-driving vehicle to the service area in response to the smoke detection system detecting the smoke inside the self-driving vehicle and determining that the particle size is smaller than the predetermined threshold.