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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2021
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Curt Harrington, San Francisco, CA (US);
Wei Lu, San Bruno, CA (US);
Devina Jain, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kunal Mehta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nikola John Linn Noxon, San Francisco, CA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Various technologies described herein pertain to reserving seats in an autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of seats that can be occupied by passengers when riding in the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is configured to assign a particular seat from the plurality of seats in the autonomous vehicle to a passenger based on information pertaining to the passenger and information pertaining to a ride-sharing trip. The autonomous vehicle is to transport at least the passenger and a differing passenger during at least a portion of the ride-sharing trip. Moreover, the passenger and the differing passenger independently request rides in the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is further configured to output, to the passenger, an indication of the particular seat assigned to the passenger.