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Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2019
Applicant:

Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

David Harrison Silver, Millbrae, CA (US);

David Ian Franklin Ferguson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00805 (2013.01); B60W 60/0025 (2020.02);
Abstract

Aspects of the disclosure relate controlling autonomous vehicles or vehicles having an autonomous driving mode. More particularly, these vehicles may identify and respond to other vehicles engaged in a parallel parking maneuver by receiving sensor data corresponding to objects in an autonomous vehicle's environment and including location information for the objects over time. An object corresponding to another vehicle in a lane in front of the first vehicle may be identified from the sensor data. A pattern of actions of the other vehicle identified form the sensor data is used to determine that the second vehicle is engaged in a parallel parking maneuver based on a pattern of actions exhibited by the other vehicle identified from the sensor data. The determination is then used to control the autonomous vehicle.


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