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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2021
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Kyungtae Han, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ziran Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Prashant Tiwari, Santa Clara, CA (US);
John K Lenneman, Okemos, MI (US);
Toshinori Esaka, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Miles J. Johnson, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Chase C. Violetta, Plymouth, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Abstract
Based on a model and an identity of an operator of a vehicle, a setting for a cruise control to maintain a distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle can be determined. The model can be based on historical distances maintained by the operator. The model can also be based on information about an environment in which the vehicle is operating or information about a state of the operator. The identity can be received from an interface configured to receive information associated with the identity, a cloud computing platform, or a biometric system configured to determine the identity. The cruise control can be caused to operate according to the setting. A rate of energy consumption by the vehicle when the vehicle is controlled by the cruise control can be less than the rate of energy consumption when the vehicle lacks being controlled by the cruise control.