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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2018
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Umair Ibrahim, San Jose, CA (US);
Ian Fleming, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle platoon system may include a database configured to maintain a user profile and data descriptive of existing platoons, and a processor configured to receive a platoon request indicating desire to join a platoon, receive, in response to the request, the user profile defining at least one compliance threshold indicative of a minimum compliance score of other platoon participants, determine whether all members of at least one of the existing platoons have a compliance score exceeding the compliance threshold, and instruct an indication of the platoon to be presented for selection.