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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2019
Applicant:
Peloton Technology, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joshua Switkes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Evan Nakano, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Peloton Technology, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/165 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/22 (2013.01); B60W 30/165 (2013.01); G05D 1/0293 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02);
Abstract
Systems and methods are described for determining whether a platooning system is safe. In various aspects, a platooning system may collect information from various sensors included on one or more vehicles, and use the gathered information to determine whether the system achieves a threshold amount of safeness is achieved. In response to determining that a vehicle is unsafe, a system may prohibit vehicles from platooning or cause platooning vehicles to end their current platooning session.