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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2023
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kenneth Ferguson, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Samuel Harrison Glidden, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Maximilian Gerrit Euchenhofer, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Jeffrey Brandon, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Michael Frank Schmidt, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method comprising receiving a rideshare request from a user, the rideshare request including a destination; transporting the passenger to the destination using an autonomous vehicle (AV) having a plurality of windows comprising electrically switchable smart glass; during the transporting, monitoring a metric related to arrival of the AV at the destination; and untinting the windows when the monitored metric has a prescribed relationship to a threshold value.