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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
May. 05, 2017
Waymo Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dmitri A. Dolgov, Los Altos, CA (US);
Philip Nemec, San Jose, CA (US);
Anne Kristiina Aula, Mountain View, CA (US);
Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An autonomous vehicle detects a tailgating vehicle and uses various response mechanisms. A vehicle is identified as a tailgater based on whether its characteristics meet a variable threshold. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at slower speeds, the threshold is defined in distance. When the autonomous vehicle is traveling at faster speeds, the threshold is defined in time. The autonomous vehicle responds to the tailgater by modifying its driving behavior. In one example, the autonomous vehicle adjusts a headway buffer (defined in time) from another vehicle in front of the autonomous vehicle. In this regard, if the tailgater is T seconds too close to the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle increases the headway buffer to the vehicle in front of it by some amount relative to T.
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