公开(公告)号：US20250153741A1

公开(公告)日：2025-05-15

申请号：US18507169

申请日：2023-11-13

Applicant: Waymo LLC

Inventor： Lauren Schwendimann ,  Donghyun Kim ,  Connie Trinh

IPC: B60W60/00 ,  G06Q50/30

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for wait times for pickups of passengers involving autonomous vehicles. For instance, a request for a trip identifying a pickup location may be received from a client computing device. A plurality of potential pickup locations may be identified. A subset of the plurality of potential pickup locations may be determined. A wait time may be assigned to each of the potential pickup locations of the subset. Each wait time may correspond to an estimated amount of time an autonomous vehicle can wait for the user at a respective one of the potential pickup locations of the subset. The potential pickup locations of the subset and the assigned wait times may be sent to the client computing device for display to a user.

公开(公告)号：US11885626B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17134491

申请日：2020-12-27

Applicant: Waymo LLC

Inventor： Eric Friedman ,  Saksiri Tanphaichitr ,  Donghyun Kim ,  Ben Wang ,  Cameron Blume ,  Mishika Vora ,  Gaurav Agarwal

IPC: G01C21/34 ,  B60W60/00 ,  G01C21/00 ,  G01C21/36 ,  G06V20/56

CPC classification number: G01C21/3438 ,  B60W60/001 ,  G01C21/3605 ,  G01C21/3804 ,  G06V20/56

Abstract: An example method includes setting an initial pickup location. The method includes causing an autonomous vehicle to navigate towards the initial pickup location. The method includes periodically generating a plurality of candidate updated pickup locations. The method includes selecting a suggested pickup location from the plurality of candidate pickup locations that achieves a benchmark for reducing one or more of a time and a distance associated with the initial pickup location for one or more of the autonomous vehicle and the client device. The method includes determining that the suggested pickup location satisfies a set of pre-update checks for limiting a number of pickup location updates. The method includes responsive to (i) selecting the suggested pickup location, and (ii) determining that the suggested pickup location satisfies the set of pre-update checks, causing the autonomous vehicle to navigate to the suggested pickup location.

公开(公告)号：US20230324192A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-12

申请号：US18131541

申请日：2023-04-06

Applicant: WAYMO LLC

Inventor： Kevin Malta ,  Bruce Mai ,  Reed Morse ,  Victor Chan ,  Celia Zhang ,  Jonathan Willing ,  Shiqian Zhang ,  Donghyun Kim

IPC: G01C21/34

CPC classification number: G01C21/3484

Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for generating and using a model for identifying a plurality of pick up or drop off locations for a large venue point of interest. For instance, a large venue point of interest may be identified. The plurality may be identified for the large venue point of interest based on a combination of historical trip data and map information. The plurality may be associated with the large venue point of interest. The association may be stored in memory for later use. Thereafter, a request for a trip identifying the large venue point of interest may be received from a client computing device, and the plurality may be provided to the client computing device in response to the request. A pickup and drop off location of the plurality may be provided to an autonomous vehicle in order to cause the autonomous vehicle to transport a passenger to the pickup or drop off location.