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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2020
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Friedman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Saksiri Tanphaichitr, Mountain View, CA (US);
Donghyun Kim, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ben Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cameron Blume, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mishika Vora, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gaurav Agarwal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An example method includes setting an initial pickup location. The method includes causing an autonomous vehicle to navigate towards the initial pickup location. The method includes periodically generating a plurality of candidate updated pickup locations. The method includes selecting a suggested pickup location from the plurality of candidate pickup locations that achieves a benchmark for reducing one or more of a time and a distance associated with the initial pickup location for one or more of the autonomous vehicle and the client device. The method includes determining that the suggested pickup location satisfies a set of pre-update checks for limiting a number of pickup location updates. The method includes responsive to (i) selecting the suggested pickup location, and (ii) determining that the suggested pickup location satisfies the set of pre-update checks, causing the autonomous vehicle to navigate to the suggested pickup location.