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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 03, 2014
Applicants:

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, Wolfsburg, DE;

Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;

Inventors:

William Brian Lathrop, San Jose, CA (US);

Peter Oel, Redwood City, CA (US);

Daniel Lipinski, Redwood City, CA (US);

Erik Glaser, San Francisco, CA (US);

James Leigh Toggweiler, San Francisco, CA (US);

Nathaniel Coser, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignees:

VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, Wolfsburg, DE;

Audi AG, , DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3453 (2013.01); G01C 21/36 (2013.01); G05D 1/02 (2013.01); G01C 21/34 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system is provided for a semi-autonomous vehicle to have optional routes that vary in an amount of autonomous driving offered. The system performs processes including aggregating data from various sources to thereby position and orient the vehicle, assigning an autonomous driving value to different route segments, determining an optimal route by minimizing a distance between a start position and a destination position and maximizing the percent autonomous value assigned, and displaying the optimal route.


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