Gm Cruise Holdings LLC

Nitin Kumar Passa

Lucio Otavio Marchioro Rech

Geoffrey Louis Chi-Johnston

Laura Athena Freeman

Antony Joseph

Vishal Suresh Vaingankar

George Herbert Hines

Sean Gregory Skwerer

Tucker Allen Paxton

Beini Jiang

The subject disclosure relates to solutions for arbitrating traffic blockages along vehicle routes. In some aspects, the disclosed technology encompasses a method including steps for determining a vehicle route, wherein the vehicle route comprises at least one lane plan to be followed by an autonomous vehicle (AV), identifying a blockage along the vehicle route, analyzing the blockage to determine if the blockage constitutes a persistent blockage, and if the blockage constitutes a persistent blockage, associating a time value with the blockage. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

Blockage routing and maneuver arbitration

Various technologies described herein pertain to routing an autonomous vehicle based upon risk of takeover of the autonomous vehicle by a human operator. A computing system receives an origin location and a destination location of the autonomous vehicle. The computing system identifies a route for the autonomous vehicle to follow from the origin location to the destination location based upon output of a computer-implemented model. The computer-implemented model is generated based upon labeled data indicative of instances in which autonomous vehicles are observed to transition from operating autonomously to operating based upon conduction by human operators while the autonomous vehicles are executing predefined maneuvers. The computer-implemented model takes, as input, an indication of a maneuver in the predefined maneuvers that is performed by the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle follows a candidate route. The autonomous vehicle then follows the route from the origin location to the destination location.

Autonomous vehicle routing based upon risk of autonomous vehicle takeover

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Nitin Kumar Passa