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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2020
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Eric Chu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Janek Hudecek, Redwood City, CA (US);
Prateek Chandresh Shah, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
This application relates to techniques for dynamically determining whether to engage an autonomous controller of a vehicle. A computing system may receive a request to engage the autonomous controller (e.g., autonomous mode) of the vehicle. In some examples, the request may be received from a simulation computing system configured to test an updated autonomous controller in a simulation. Based on a determination that conditions associated with engaging autonomy are satisfied, the computing system engages the autonomous controller. Based on a determination that conditions associated with engaging autonomy are not satisfied, the computing system disables the engagement of the autonomous controller such that the vehicle is controlled according to an initial operational mode (e.g., manual mode, semi-autonomous mode, previous version of the autonomous controller, etc.).