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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022
Filed:
May. 30, 2019
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Michael Hand, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Christopher Nave, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Shubham Sharma, Canton, MI (US);
Johnathon Gagnon, Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/343 (2013.01); G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract
An autonomous vehicle comprising an integrated on-vehicle system having a queue management system configured to manage a queue of passenger waypoints, wherein the integrated on-vehicle system is configured to assign the passenger waypoints to a virtual driver system (VDS) of the autonomous vehicle.