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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan Joseph Andrade, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Ryan Cash, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Colijn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Laurens Andreas Feenstra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Congyu Gao, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dirk Haehnel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Steven Reis, San Jose, CA (US);
Omari Stephens, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining vehicle operation modes for a fleet of vehicles. This may include maintaining a storage system including vehicle parameters for a vehicle fleet such that each vehicle of the fleet is associated with a set of vehicle parameters. The vehicle operation mode may be determined by selecting one of a plurality of vehicle operation levels arranged in a hierarchy or by identifying a set of tags where each level or tag corresponds to a vehicle driving capability. The determined vehicle operation mode may be communicated to the given vehicle in order to cause the vehicle to operate according to the determined vehicle operation mode.