Evaluating and Presenting Pick-Up and Drop-Off Locations in a Situational Awareness View of an Autonomous Vehicle

• Main Authors: Matthiesen, Taggart, Dehner, Craig, Tighe, John, Rasmusson, Robert Earl, Guerron, Eli, Guo, Jisi, Vitelli, Matt, van Schaardenburg, Karina, Dong, Linda, Yoo, Frank Taehyun
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 25.02.2021
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CONTROLLING; COUNTING; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; MEASURING; MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; MOTOR VEHICLES; NAVIGATION; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY; PHYSICS; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECOGNITION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; REGULATING; SURVEYING; SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES; TESTING; TRAILERS; TRANSPORTING

In one embodiment, a method includes sending a set of instructions to present, on a computing device, one or more available locations for a vehicle to pick-up or drop-off a user in an area. The one or more available locations are based on sensor data of the area that is captured by the vehicle. The method includes receiving a user selection to select a location associated with the area for the vehicle to pick-up or drop-off the user. The method includes adjusting a viability value of one or more locations to pick-up or drop-off the user. The viability value is adjusted based at least on the selected location. The method includes, based on the adjusted viability value of the one or more locations, determining a location from the one or more locations. The method includes instructing the vehicle to travel to the determined location.