Vehicles and methods for routing a plurality of vehicles to a common destination
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorDivya Garikapati
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for routing a plurality of vehicles includes receiving an input from an input device of a vehicle, wherein the input includes a destination location, a destination date and time, and at least one companion vehicle, receiving, by the vehicle, a companion location for the at least one companion vehicle, generating, by the vehicle, a primary vehicle route for the vehicle and a companion vehicle route for the at least one companion vehicle, and transmitting, using a network interface hardware of the vehicle, one or more control signals to the at least one companion vehicle to at least partially control the at least one companion vehicle such that it arrives at the destination location at the destination date and time.
Claims20
A vehicle comprising:
- an input device;
- a network interface hardware;
- one or more processors;
- a non-transitory memory component storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- receive an input from the input device, the input comprising:
- a destination location;
- a destination date and time;
- and
- at least one companion vehicle;
- receive a companion location for the at least one companion vehicle;
- generate a primary vehicle route for the vehicle and a companion vehicle route for the at least one companion vehicle;
- and
- transmit, using the network interface hardware, one or more control signals to the at least one companion vehicle to at least partially control the at least one companion vehicle such that it arrives at the destination location at the destination date and time.
A method for routing a plurality of vehicles, the method comprising:
- receiving an input from an input device of a vehicle, the input comprising:
- a destination location;
- a destination date and time;
- and
- at least one companion vehicle;
- receiving, by the vehicle, a companion location for the at least one companion vehicle;
- generating, by the vehicle, a primary vehicle route for the vehicle and a companion vehicle route for the at least one companion vehicle;
- and
- transmitting, using a network interface hardware of the vehicle, one or more control signals to the at least one companion vehicle to at least partially control the at least one companion vehicle such that it arrives at the destination location at the destination date and time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.