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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2023
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Taggart Matthiesen, Kentfield, CA (US);
Sebastian Rolf Johan Brannstrom, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jess Garms, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a transportation system may receive a ride request of a requestor from a requestor computing device. In response to receiving the ride request, the transportation system may present an option to include an autonomous vehicle among available vehicle types for fulfilling the ride request. The transportation system may determine whether the option to include the autonomous vehicle was selected and match the ride request to a vehicle based on determining whether the option to include the autonomous vehicle was selected.