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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Hideo Umetani, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoyuki Harada, Osaka, JP;
Takuya Yamaguchi, Osaka, JP;
Shuhei Matsui, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
An autonomous driving vehicle includes a main vehicle part, a processor, and a memory storing thereon a computer program, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations. The operations include detecting a gesture made, to try to stop the main vehicle part, by a person present near a road on which the main vehicle part is running, determining whether there is a passenger in the main vehicle part, and controlling autonomous driving of the main vehicle part. In a case where it is determined that there is no passenger in the main vehicle part, when a person making the gesture is detected, the controlling controls the main vehicle part to stop near the person.