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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2017
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ethan Stark, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel Trawick Egnor, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ryan Cash, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Schultz, Piedmont, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a transition between a manual driving mode and an autonomous driving mode of a vehicle. For instance, one or more processors of one or more control computing devices may control the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode. While controlling the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode and decelerating at a given rate, the processors may receive at a user input of the vehicle input requesting a transition from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode. In response to the input, the processors may transition the vehicle to the manual driving mode. After transitioning the vehicle to the manual driving mode, the processors may send deceleration signals to a deceleration actuator thereby causing the vehicle to continue to decelerate at the given rate.