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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2019
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Geoffrey Woo Honda, Torrance, CA (US);
James Marion Cournyer, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Fong Loon Pan, Torrance, CA (US);
Craig Mitchell, Huntington Beach, CA (US);
Shinji Maeshiro, Cypress, CA (US);
Christopher Tarchala, Torrance, CA (US);
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Delivery of a modularly reconfigurable vehicle may include receiving a request for the modularly reconfigurable vehicle, including a desired configuration associated with the modularly reconfigurable vehicle and a location associated with the request. Delivery of a modularly reconfigurable vehicle may include identifying the modularly reconfigurable vehicle from a plurality of candidate modularly reconfigurable vehicles and a target reconfiguration station from a plurality of candidate reconfiguration stations, providing an instruction to the modularly reconfigurable vehicle to travel to the target reconfiguration station, upon the modularly reconfigurable vehicle reaching the target reconfiguration station, providing an instruction to reconfigure the modularly reconfigurable vehicle according to the desired configuration as a modularly reconfigured vehicle, and upon the modularly reconfigured vehicle being reconfigured according to the desired configuration, providing an instruction to the modularly reconfigured vehicle to travel to the location associated with the request.