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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2016
Baidu Usa Llc, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Quan Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Biao Ma, San Jose, CA (US);
Shaoshan Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James Peng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
BAIDU USA LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a vehicle identifier (ID) and vehicle information of a first autonomous vehicle is transmitted to a cloud server over a network, where the cloud server is communicatively coupled to a plurality of autonomous vehicles. A list of one or more vehicle identifiers (IDs) are received from the cloud server. The vehicle IDs identify one or more autonomous vehicles are within a predetermined geographic proximity of the first autonomous vehicle. The first autonomous vehicle communicates with a second autonomous vehicle that is selected from the list of one or more autonomous vehicles via a wireless local area network to exchange an operational status of the first autonomous vehicle with the second autonomous vehicle.