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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2022
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Takanori Imazu, Susono, JP;
Yoshiki Fukada, Susono, JP;
Ryuji Okamura, Gotemba, JP;
Takashi Hayashi, Mishima, JP;
Kohki Baba, Susono, JP;
Satoshi Omi, Ebina, JP;
Akihiro Kusumoto, Susono, JP;
Yuta Kataoka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00253 (2020.02);
Abstract
When an autonomous vehicle is caused to depart from a current position to a pickup location, a waiting location for temporarily parking the autonomous vehicle is set between the current position and the pickup location. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously driven from the current position to the waiting location, temporarily parked at the waiting location, and then autonomously driven to the pickup location.