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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2019
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Nutonya Lynn Parker, Dallas, TX (US);
Alexander T. Pham, San Jose, CA (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
According to various embodiments of the disclosed technology, a vehicle may detect impaired drivers of other vehicles. In some embodiments, a first vehicle, comprises a hardware processor; and a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the hardware processor to perform a method to determine whether a driver of a second vehicle is impaired, the method comprising: collecting information concerning the second vehicle from one or more sensors mounted on the first vehicle; determining a driving behavior of a driver of the second vehicle based on the information collected by the first vehicle; comparing the determined driving behavior of the driver of the second vehicle with a baseline driving behavior; determining whether the driver of the second vehicle is impaired based on the comparing; and taking one or more actions responsive to determining that the driver of the second vehicle is impaired.