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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2022
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lauren Schwendimann, Burlingame, CA (US);
Kevin Malta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Victor Chan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kyle Bechtel, San Mateo, CA (US);
Philip Moltmann, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Reed Morse, Millbrae, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure provide for arranging tour trips. For instance, a request identifying a pickup location for a tour trip may be received from a client computing device. A set of tours may be selected from a plurality of pre-stored tours based on the pickup location. Each of the plurality of pre-stored tours may include tour locations. The set of tours may be provided to the client computing device for display. Information identifying one of the set of tours may be received from the client computing device. Instructions may be provided to an autonomous vehicle to cause the autonomous vehicle to complete the tour trip by maneuvering to the pickup location and thereafter visit one or more tour locations included in the identified one of the set of tours.