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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
May. 02, 2019
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Brent Justin Goldman, San Fransico, CA (US);
Leigh Gray Hagestad, San Francisco, CA (US);
Rei Chiang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle to reduce idle data usage and vehicle downtime are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain data associated with autonomous vehicle(s) that are online with a service entity. The computing system can obtain data indicative of the geographic area with an imbalance in a number of vehicles associated with the geographic area. The computing system can determine a first autonomous vehicle for re-positioning with respect to the geographic area based at least in part on the data associated with the one or more autonomous vehicles and the data indicative of the geographic. The computing system can communicating data indicative of a first re-positioning assignment associated with the first autonomous vehicle. In some implementations, the computing system can generate vehicle service incentive to entice a vehicle provider to re-position its autonomous vehicles with respect to the geographic area.