Dash Navigation, Inc.

Peloton Technology, Inc.

Blackberry Corporation

Telcontar

Other

Uber Technologies, Inc.

Decarta Inc.

Brian Eric Smartt

Joshua P Switkes

Charles A Price

Richard Frederick Poppen

Linnea A Dunn

Laurie June Vertelney

Paul J Lima

Eric S Wels

Daniel M Kohn

Craig Weisenfluh

Steven C Wollenberg

Oliver Thomas Bayley

Austin Bennett Schuh

Peter Leroy Froeberg

Colleen Twitty

Shad Mitchell Laws

Mark S Luckevich

Mark Herbert

Frank J Derose

Steven Erlein

Murad Bharwani

Tabitha Jarvis

Brian Silverman

Richard Pallo

Laurenz Laubinger

Joyce Tam

Louis Donayre

Eric Monsler

Andrew Tamoney

Dean Hogle

Carlos Rosario

Art Gavrysh

Marc Tange

Systems and methods for coordinating and controlling vehicles, for example heavy trucks, to follow closely behind each other, or linking to form a platoon. In one aspect, on-board controllers in each vehicle interact with vehicular sensors to monitor and control, for example, relative distance, relative acceleration or deceleration, and speed. In some aspects, vehicle onboard systems supply various data (breadcrumbs) to a Network Operations Center (NOC), which in turn provides data (authorization data) to the vehicles to facilitate platooning. The NOC suggests vehicles for platooning based on, for example, travel forecasts and analysis of relevant roadways to identify platoonable roadway segments. The NOC also can provide traffic, roadway, weather, or system updates, as well as various instructions. In some aspects, a mesh network ensures improved communication among vehicles and with the NOC. In some aspects, a vehicle onboard system may provide the authorization data.

Devices, systems, and methods for remote authorization of vehicle platooning

Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for automated following behind a lead vehicle. The lead vehicle navigates a path from a starting point to a destination. The lead vehicle and the following vehicle are connected via V2V communication, allowing one or more following vehicles to detect the path taken by the lead vehicle. A computerized control system on the following vehicle (a Follow-the-Leader, or FTL, system) allows the following vehicle to mimic the behavior of the lead vehicle, with the FTL system controlling steering to guide the following vehicle along the path previously navigated by the lead vehicle. In some embodiments, the lead vehicle and following vehicle may both use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) position coordinates. In some embodiments, the following vehicle may also have a system of sensors to maintain a gap between the following and lead vehicles.

Control of automated following in vehicle convoys

A destination from a plurality of destinations is identified. A plurality of routes associated with the destination is calculated. A determination is made that the device is travelling along a route in the plurality of routes without receiving user input selecting the route. Navigational data associated with the route is displayed in response to determining that the device is travelling along the route.

User interface system and method for a vehicle navigation device

Devices, systems, and methods for generating travel forecasts for vehicle pairing

Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city by a small amount ('false positives'). The search method guarantees that no instance of the street name within the specified distance of the specified city is erroneously missed ('false negatives').

Geocoding locations near a specified city

Devices, systems, and methods for remote authorization of autonomous vehicle operation

A user interface for use in a vehicle navigation and traffic information device. Various adaptable menu commands and intuitive UI elements are provided to ease user navigation of the interface and to minimize driver distraction while providing information in an optimized manner.

The disclosure described technology for presenting information via a mobile communication device in a transportation network, the transportation network modeled by segment and time slot. Information tagged by modeled segment, modeled time slot, and aggregate demographics of a target audience in the modeled segment and modeled time slot is received. The aggregate demographics include at least route context of transportation network users in the segment and time slot. The received information, including received tagged information, is published to a communication network of the mobile communication device. The published information is filtered for published information tagged with aggregate demographics corresponding to demographics of the mobile communication device&#x2014;demographics of the mobile communication device including at least a route context of the mobile communication device. The filtered information is presented via the mobile communication device.

Presenting information at one or more mobile communication devices in a transportation network

Methods and systems for generating, deriving, and enhancing drivable road databases are provided. A baseline road in a road network is defined and position and/or trajectory data collected by vehicles traveling the baseline road are compiled and compared to a representation of the baseline road in an existing database. Identity and/or other property information about the road are assigned form the existing database to the new database.

Method and systems for deducing road geometry and connectivity

A system and method identifies road features that may not appear on a map database, such as paths not described as roads on the map database, and whether all the roads at a crossing cross at the same grade level. The system and method may thus be used to identify points of departure from, or points of merging onto, a road described by the map database or a path identified as described herein, but not described by the map database.

System and method for identifying road features

Methods and system for deducing road geometry and connectivity

Methods and systems for deducing road geometry and connectivity

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Brian Eric Smartt