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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2020
Systems and methods for switching between a driver mode and an autonomous driving mode for a vehicle
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Stephen McGill, Broomall, PA (US);
Luke Fletcher, Cambridge, MA (US);
Kazunori Nimura, Novi, MI (US);
John Leonard, Newton, MA (US);
Gill Pratt, Los Altos, CA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A vehicle system includes a steering wheel configured to output an output based on an input from a user, and a controller configured to: determine a target orientation of front wheels of a vehicle based on vehicle environment information, determine whether an orientation of the front wheels of the vehicle based on the output from the steering wheel deviates from the target orientation, disengage the steering wheel from the front wheels in response to determination that the orientation of the front wheels deviates from the target orientation, adjust the orientation of the front wheels to the target orientation and provide a feedback in response to adjusting the orientation of the front wheels to the target orientation.