Waymo LLC

Reed Morse

Victor Chan

Kevin Joseph Malta

Bruce Mai

Lauren Schwendimann

Philip Moltmann

Maria Moon

Donghyun Kim

Kyle Bechtel

Jonathan Willing

Kerry Brennan

Jason Persampieri

Celia Zhang

Ryan Hendrickson

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramirez

Shiqian Zhang

Hans-olav CaveLie

Aspects of the disclosure provide for generating and using a model for identifying a plurality of pick up or drop off locations for a large venue point of interest. For instance, a large venue point of interest may be identified. The plurality may be identified for the large venue point of interest based on a combination of historical trip data and map information. The plurality may be associated with the large venue point of interest. The association may be stored in memory for later use. Thereafter, a request for a trip identifying the large venue point of interest may be received from a client computing device, and the plurality may be provided to the client computing device in response to the request. A pickup and drop off location of the plurality may be provided to an autonomous vehicle in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to transport a passenger to the pickup or drop off location.

Determining pickup and drop off locations for large venue points of interests

Aspects of the disclosure provide for arranging tour trips. For instance, a request identifying a pickup location for a tour trip may be received from a client computing device. A set of tours may be selected from a plurality of pre-stored tours based on the pickup location. Each of the plurality of pre-stored tours may include tour locations. The set of tours may be provided to the client computing device for display. Information identifying one of the set of tours may be received from the client computing device. Instructions may be provided to an autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to complete the tour trip by maneuvering to the pickup location and thereafter visit one or more tour locations included in the identified one of the set of tours.

Arranging tour trips using autonomous vehicles

Aspects of the disclosure relate to arranging trips for an autonomous vehicle transportation service. In one instance, a request for a first trip from a user is received. The trip may include a pickup location and a destination location. Whether the user has previously completed the first trip may be determined by comparing the pickup location and the destination location to a trip history for the user. Based on the determination, a notification suggesting that the user establish a routine may be provided for display to the user. Confirmation that the user wants to establish a routine based on the pickup location and the destination location may be received. The routine may be stored in memory for later use.

Establishing routines for autonomous vehicle transportation services

Aspects of the disclosure provide for arranging a trip in an autonomous vehicle without a driver. For instance, a request may be received from a client computing device associated with a first person to arrange the trip for a second person. The request may include a pickup location for the second person and a destination location for the second person. An authentication method may be identified for the trip. A signal may be sent to the autonomous vehicle in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to maneuver to the pickup location, authenticate the second person using the authentication method, and transport the second person to the destination location.

Arranging passenger trips for autonomous vehicles

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Reed Morse