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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2024
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Salil Pandit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nirmal Patel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Renaud-Roland Hubert, Gilroy, CA (US);
Maria Moon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lauren Schwendimann, Burlingame, CA (US);
Guilherme Villar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ryan Powell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter Crandall, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew Corey Hall, Cupertino, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The technology includes communicating the current status of a self-driving vehicle to users, such as passengers within the vehicle and other users awaiting pickup. Certain information about the trip and vehicle status is communicated depending on where the passenger is sitting within the vehicle or where the person awaiting pickup is located outside the vehicle. This includes disseminating the 'monologue' of a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode to a user via an app on the user's device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet or laptop PC, wearable, or other computing device) and/or an in-vehicle user interface. The monologue includes current status information regarding driving decisions and related operations or actions. This alerts the user as to why the vehicle is taking (or not taking) a certain action, which reduces confusion and allows the user to focus on other matters.