Gm Cruise Holdings LLC

Gm Global Technolgoy Operations, Inc.

Nathan Mandi

Mohamed Mostafa Elshenawy

Gabriel Warshauer-Baker

Benjamin Earle Weinstein-Raun

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for detecting whether an object is approaching an autonomous vehicle when a passenger is about to exit the autonomous vehicle, determining a speed and type of the object that is approaching the autonomous vehicle, determining whether the object will enter an exit zone when the passenger enters the exit zone based on the speed and the type of the object that is approaching the autonomous vehicle, and preventing the passenger from exiting the autonomous vehicle based on the determining of whether the object will enter the exit zone when the passenger enters the exit zone.

Passenger safeguards for autonomous vehicles

An autonomous vehicle is described herein. The autonomous vehicle comprises sensor systems that generate sensor signals and a computing system. The computing system generates an awareness graph based upon the sensor signals. The awareness graph comprises nodes connected by directed edges. The nodes include a first node assigned to a first maneuver that is to be executed by a vehicle in a vicinity of the autonomous vehicle and a second node assigned to a second maneuver that is to be executed by the autonomous vehicle. The directed edges include a directed edge that extends from the second node to the first node indicating that execution of the second maneuver is dependent upon execution of the first maneuver. The autonomous vehicle determines an ordering of the first maneuver and the second maneuver based on the awareness graph and executes the second maneuver in accordance with the ordering.

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