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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2021
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Manuel Ludwig Kuehner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel J. Brooks, Arlington, MA (US);
Hiroshi Yasuda, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jaime Camhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle are disclosed herein. One embodiment determines a reference path for the autonomous vehicle along a roadway segment and steers the autonomous vehicle along a path that includes controlled back and forth lateral deviations from the reference path along the roadway segment to provide feedback to an occupant of the autonomous vehicle, the feedback indicating to the occupant that the autonomous vehicle is in an autonomous driving mode and that the autonomous driving mode is operating correctly.