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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2023
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Douglas Helfgott, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jennifer Devar Mcknew, Petaluma, CA (US);
Max Eunice, San Francisco, CA (US);
Spencer Lee James, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexander Willem Gerrese, San Francisco, CA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing opportunities for interactions and communication between vehicles and passengers. In particular, a vehicle socialization platform is provided for facilitating a wide range of social and utilitarian exchanges between vehicles and their occupants, thus providing a community of interconnected vehicles. Vehicle interactions can include passive communication, including vehicles from a particular fleet acknowledging other fleet vehicles without intervention from a passenger or user. Vehicle interactions can include active communication, in which passengers are engaged with and have some control over vehicle communications through dedicated experiences provided in a ridehail application or on an in-vehicle tablet. In particular, some experiences can become dynamically available based on the fleet vehicle's proximity to another fleet vehicle. The vehicle socialization platform is a smart socialization platform that enables two-way communication between vehicles and passengers, facilitating a wide range of social and utilitarian exchanges between vehicles and vehicle occupants.