Self-driving vehicle's response to a proximate emergency vehicle
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael S. Gordon, James R. Kozloski, Ashish Kundu, Peter K. Malkin, Clifford A. Pickover
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls self-driving vehicles (SDVs). An emergency message is transmitted to a receiver within a self-driving vehicle (SDV). The emergency message describes an emergency state of an emergency vehicle and an identified future route of the emergency vehicle. In response to the SDV receiving the emergency message, the SDV is redirected, via an auto-control hardware system on the SDV, to a location and on a route that does not conflict with the identified future route of the emergency vehicle.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for controlling self-driving vehicles (SDVs), the computer-implemented method comprising:
- transmitting, to a receiver within a self-driving vehicle (SDV), an emergency message, wherein the emergency message describes an emergency state of an emergency vehicle and an identified future route of the emergency vehicle, wherein the identified future route is a planned route to an emergency destination for the emergency vehicle that includes a first pathway;
- in response to the SDV receiving the emergency message, redirecting, via an auto-control hardware system on the SDV, the SDV to drive to a second pathway that does not conflict with the identified future route of the emergency vehicle;
- and
- in response to the receiver within the SDV receiving the emergency message, automatically transmitting, to the emergency vehicle, real-time current traffic patterns of a current location of the SDV, wherein the real-time current traffic patterns are generated based on positioning signals generated by positioning systems in multiple SDVs that are in the current location of the SDV.
A computer program product for controlling self-driving vehicles (SDVs), the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by a processor to perform a method comprising:
- transmitting, to a receiver within a self-driving vehicle (SDV), an emergency message, wherein the emergency message describes an emergency state of an emergency vehicle and an identified future route of the emergency vehicle, wherein the identified future route is a planned route to an emergency destination for the emergency vehicle that includes a first pathway;
- and
- in response to the SDV receiving the emergency message, redirecting, via an auto-control hardware system on the SDV, the SDV to drive to a second pathway that does not conflict with the identified future route of the emergency vehicle.
A computer system comprising:
- a processor, a computer readable memory, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium;
- first program instructions to transmit, to a receiver within a self-driving vehicle (SDV), an emergency message, wherein the emergency message describes an emergency state of an emergency vehicle and an identified future route of the emergency vehicle, wherein the identified future route is a planned route to an emergency destination for the emergency vehicle that includes a first pathway;
- second program instructions to, in response to the SDV receiving the emergency message, redirect, via an auto-control hardware system on the SDV, the SDV to drive to a second pathway that does not conflict with the identified future route of the emergency vehicle;
- and wherein
- the first and second program instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium for execution by one or more processors via the computer readable memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.