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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2018
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Meredith James Goldman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Frank Reinaldo Ramirez, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
A vehicle may include an authority tracker to grant and/or limit authority to provide guidance to the vehicle. The authority tracker may store a state in a memory identifying an actor that currently has the authority. An actor requesting to have authority to provide guidance to the vehicle may transmit a control message to the authority tracker which may, in turn, authorize or deny the request based on a policy. The authority tracker may periodically, and/or in response to a request, broadcast a state message identifying the actor that currently has authority, as recorded in the memory.