Autonomous vehicle route planning

An autonomous vehicle for operating autonomously and in coordination with a commercial driver, the vehicle comprising:

• an autonomous driving subsystem;
• a storage maintaining an activity log documenting allowable commercial driver operation time under CDL rules;
• and
• one or more computing devices, configured to:
• receive route parameters including a destination and a current vehicle location,
• send a route query based on the route parameters to an ODD server to receive ODD information defining autonomous operation conditions and boundaries,
• send the route query to a weather server to receive current and predicted weather information,
• determine, based on the received ODD information, the weather information, and the activity log, a route optimized to maximize autonomous driving segments and manage commercial driver rest periods, and
• operate the vehicle along the route using the autonomous driving subsystem within ODD zones conformant with the ODD information, and under CDL driver control outside the ODD zones.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions for operating an autonomous vehicle both autonomously and in coordination with a commercial driver, that when executed by one or more computing devices cause the one or more computing devices to perform operations including to:

• receive route parameters including a destination and a current vehicle location;
• send a route query based on the route parameters to an ODD server to receive ODD information defining autonomous operation conditions and boundaries;
• send the route query to a weather server to receive current and predicted weather information;
• determine, based on the received ODD information, the weather information, and an activity log documenting allowable commercial driver operation time under CDL rules, a route optimized to maximize autonomous driving segments and manage commercial driver rest periods;
• and
• operate the vehicle along the route using an autonomous driving subsystem of the vehicle within ODD zones conformant with the ODD information, and under CDL driver control outside the ODD zones.