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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2020
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Philip Nemec, San Jose, CA (US);
Renaud-Roland Hubert, Gilroy, CA (US);
Joshua Seth Herbach, San Francisco, CA (US);
Min Li Chan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Epstein, Danville, CA (US);
Salil Pandit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
John Wesley Dyer, Los Altos, CA (US);
Juliet Rothenberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The technology relates to actively looking for an assigned passenger prior to a vehiclereaching a pickup location. For instance, information identifying the pickup location and client device information for authenticating the assigned passenger is received. Sensor data is received from a perception system of the vehicle identifying objects in an environment of the vehicle. When the vehicle is within a predetermined distance from the pickup location, authenticating a client device using the client device information is attempted. When the client device has been authenticated, the sensor data is used to determine whether a pedestrian is within a first threshold distance of the vehicle. When a pedestrian is determined to be within the first threshold distance of the vehicle, the vehicle is stopped prior to reaching the pickup location, to wait for the pedestrian within the first threshold distance of the vehicle to enter the vehicle.