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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2017
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Somdeb Majumdar, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Mainak Biswas, San Diego, CA (US);
William Henry Von Novak, San Diego, CA (US);
Muhammed Sezan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a vehicle controller determines a predicted driving performance level of a vehicle driving control entity (VDCE) while the vehicle is controlled by a different VDCE. Driving control is transitioned to the VDCE, after which an actual driving performance level of the VDCE is monitored. The vehicle controller determines whether to transition driving control away from the VDCE based on the actual driving performance level. In another embodiment, after transition driving control to a VDCE, a period of heightened scrutiny used to evaluate the actual driving performance level of the VDCE specifically after the transition.