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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2022
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Cameron Blume, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gaurav Agarwal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the technology provide a method including receiving a request for a user to be picked up or dropped off by an autonomous vehicle, in which the request identifying a location, and determining a land parcel containing the identified location. The method also includes identifying a set of features that are within a selected distance from the identified location, filtering the set of identified features to obtain only curated features that are within the selected distance from the identified location, determining a distance between each curated feature and the identified location, and inferring an access point for the identified location based on the distances determined between each curated feature and the identified location. The inferred access point can then be provided to enable the autonomous vehicle to perform a pickup or drop-off.