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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2022
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Collin Macgregor, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ravi Gogna, San Jose, CA (US);
Udayan Pushparaj Karmarkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Satya Rama Aditya Pinapala, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Aaron Rosekind, San Jose, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for intelligent vehicle pull over in response to detecting abnormal conditions. The techniques may include determining a presence of a condition necessitating that a vehicle cease from operating on a road surface and determining a constraint associated with the vehicle ceasing from operating on the road surface. In some examples, the constraint may be a time constraint, a geographical constraint, and/or the like. The techniques may also include sending, to a planner component of the vehicle, an indication that the vehicle is to cease from operating on the road surface in accordance with the constraint. Additionally, based at least in part on a determination that the planner component acknowledged the indication in accordance with the constraint, the techniques may include refraining from causing the vehicle to stop on the road surface such that the vehicle impedes a flow of traffic.