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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2021
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xiaoyue Zhao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Henning Hohnhold, San Francisco, CA (US);
Xiang Gao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ajay Joshi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Vishay Nihalani, San Francisco, CA (US);
Katharine Patterson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joseph Lee, Menlo Park, CA (US);
WAYMO LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of providing a destination to an autonomous vehicle in order to enable the autonomous vehicle to collect data according to a targeted driving goal. For instance, a current location of an autonomous vehicle may be received. A set of destinations may be selected from a plurality of predetermined destinations. A route may be determined for each destination. A relevance score may be determined for each destination based on the determined routes and the targeted driving goal. Each destination may be assigned to one of a set of two or more buckets based on the relevance scores. A destination of the set may be selected based on a predetermined sampling probability. The selected destination is sent to the autonomous vehicle in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to travel to the selected destination in an autonomous driving mode.