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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2020
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Konrad Julian Niemiec, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jay A. Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shenglong Gao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Yen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure include systems, methods, and devices to facilitate routing of an autonomous vehicle (AV) based on pick-up or drop-off zones (PDZs) that are usable by the AV at destination location. A request for one or more PDZs that are usable by a vehicle to perform a pick-up or drop-off operation at a specified location is received from a vehicular autonomy system of the vehicle. A set of PDZs that are usable by the vehicle at the specified location is identified based on an association between information associated with vehicle and one or more PDZ objects in a data store. Each PDZ object comprising data describing a PDZ. A response is generated based on the set of PDZs and transmitted to the vehicular autonomy system. The response includes at least one PDZ identifier to the set of PDZs.