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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2017
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takayuki Shimizu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kunihiko Kumita, Toyota, JP;
Other;
Abstract
The disclosure includes embodiments for optimizing a route selection for a highly autonomous vehicle ('HAV') which provides an automated driving service. In some embodiments, a method includes: generating a set of candidate routes for a journey; aggregating external data describing one or more external factors which limit an availability of the automated driving service while traveling along the candidate routes; determining a first value for an optimal degree of automation for traveling the journey based on a condition of the driver and the preferences of the driver; determining a plurality of second values for a plurality of possible degrees of automation for each candidate route based on the external data; and selecting an optimum route from the set of candidate routes by comparing the first value to the plurality of second values to determine which of the candidate routes has a second value which is closest to the first value.