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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Makoto Kakuchi, Toyota, JP;
Osamu Izumida, Nagoya, JP;
Shunji Inoue, Okazaki, JP;
Takumi Hamajima, Takatsuki, JP;
Mitsushi Kintaka, Kariya, JP;
Toshihiro Andou, Kariya, JP;
Masamitsu Takahira, Kariya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A taxicab system includes a plurality of taxicab vehicles which are all autonomous vehicles, and a management device. Each taxicab vehicle can form a vehicle group with other taxicab vehicles according to an instruction from a customer or the management device. The vehicle group includes one representative vehicle and at least one subordinate vehicle. The representative vehicle and the subordinate vehicle execute at least one of a collective billing process for charging a representative customer a fare for each of the plurality of vehicles, and a collective setting process for setting a place designated by the representative customer as a destination of each of the vehicles.