Lyft, Inc.

Arkesh Jagdish Patel

John Robert Tighe

Oleg Vadim Panichev

Jody Metzenbaum Kelman

Adam Alexander Wolf

Jonathan Patrick O'Keefe

Gavin Sebastian Hurley

Leighton Kamaile Jen

Rex See Chun Lam

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include identifying and notifying requestors that may be candidates for a particular autonomous vehicle in order to find those candidates that may be willing or able to relax their travel constraints to match the autonomous vehicle. A request flow may involve surfacing the potential option of matching to an autonomous vehicle before setting a specific destination. For example, the request flow may involve determining that an autonomous vehicle is sufficiently near an in-session potential requestor. Before the potential requestor enters a specific destination, the request flow may present the possibility of the potential requestor being matched with the autonomous vehicle. In some examples, the request flow may then provide available drop-off locations that are compatible with the autonomous vehicle for selection by the potential requestor. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for matching transportation requestor devices with autonomous vehicles

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Arkesh Jagdish Patel