Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Michael Hand

Shubham Sharma

Ali Hassani

Hamid M Golgiri

Christopher Scott Nave

Tyler Glenn

Jash Patel

Johnathon Gagnon

A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle is provided. While the vehicle is at a commanded destination the method may be responsive to an absence of an ingress/egress of a passenger for a predetermined period. The predetermined period may depend on whether the vehicle is in arrival mode or departure mode. The method may include commanding the vehicle to travel to a predetermined location selected to have measures of cellular-wireless signal strength that are greater than a predetermined threshold.

System and method for controlling an autonomous vehicle

Systems and methods comprising onboarding a plurality of parties into an autonomous vehicle; displaying in the autonomous vehicle one or more authentication protocols; receiving an authentication confirmation from each of the plurality of parties in response to the one or more authentication protocols; and communicating an authentication confirmation status of the presence of the plurality of parties to a transportation vehicle functions (TVF) manager associated with the autonomous vehicle.

Systems and methods of multiple party authentication in autonomous vehicles

An autonomous vehicle comprising an integrated on-vehicle system having a queue management system configured to manage a queue of passenger waypoints, wherein the integrated on-vehicle system is configured to assign the passenger waypoints to a virtual driver system (VDS) of the autonomous vehicle.

Systems and methods for queue management of passenger waypoints for autonomous vehicles

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Michael Hand