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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2022
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Salil Pandit, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nirmal Patel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure relates to using ambient lighting conditions with passenger and goods pickups and drop offs with autonomous vehicles. For instance, a map of ambient lighting conditions for stopping locations may be generated by receiving ambient lighting condition data for predetermined stopping locations and arranging this data into a plurality of buckets based on time and one of the stopping locations. A vehicle may then be controlled in an autonomous driving mode in order to stop for a passenger by both observing ambient lighting conditions for different stopping locations and, in some instances, also using the map.