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Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2021
Applicant:

GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Curt Harrington, San Francisco, CA (US);

Wei Lu, San Bruno, CA (US);

Devina Jain, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kunal Mehta, San Francisco, CA (US);

Nikola John Linn Noxon, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G01C 21/343 (2013.01); G01C 21/3446 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01);
Abstract

An autonomous vehicle (AV) described herein is configured to receive a pull over location specified by a passenger, and is further configured to refine the pull over location based upon one or more factors, where the factors include computer-readable content from a profile of the passenger, sensor data output by sensor systems of the AV, observed or predicted weather conditions, observed or predicted traffic, and/or observations recently generated by other AVs that belong to the same fleet as the AV.


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