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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2022
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Udayan Pushparaj Karmarkar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew Daniel Lopez, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Collin Macgregor, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ganapathy Sankararaman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for enabling operation of a vehicle in one or more different operational states after detecting a fault associated with a component of the vehicle are described herein. A vehicle computing system can monitor components of the vehicle and identify a fault associated with a component. Based on the fault, the vehicle computing system can identify a degraded operational state for the vehicle including one or more limitations or constraints on operation of the vehicle, such as limited speed, acceleration, direction of travel, and/or the like. The vehicle computing system can additionally determine a threshold time period, distance, or range for operating the vehicle in the degraded operational state. The vehicle computing system can cause the vehicle to be controlled according to the limitation(s) or constraint(s) for a time period, distance, or range that is equal to or less than the associated threshold.