US 11,868,140 B2
Autonomous-vehicle dispatch based on fleet-level target objectives
Farzad Cyrus Foroughi Abari, San Bruno, CA (US); Aaron Jacob Levine Friedman, San Francisco, CA (US); John Houston, Los Altos, CA (US); Adam Hart Reis, San Francisco, CA (US); and Alexander Thomas Starns, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Assigned to Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/019,911.
Application 17/019,911 is a continuation of application No. 15/852,914, filed on Dec. 22, 2017, granted, now 10,775,806.
Prior Publication US 2021/0064058 A1, Mar. 4, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06Q 30/06 (2023.01); G06Q 10/063 (2023.01); G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G06Q 50/30 (2012.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2023.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01)
CPC G05D 1/0291 (2013.01) [G01C 21/34 (2013.01); G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/063 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0207 (2013.01); G06Q 30/06 (2013.01); G06Q 50/30 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising, by one or more computing systems:
determining a fleet-level objective for a vehicle, wherein the fleet-level objective is associated with instructing the vehicle to travel a route according to route criteria based on the fleet-level objective;
receiving a ride request from a ride requestor, wherein the ride request is associated with ride criteria including at least a pick-up location and a drop-off location;
determining (1) an urgency score indicative of an urgency to fulfill the fleet-level objective and (2) a risk factor score indicative of an overall condition of the vehicle;
based on (1) the urgency score and (2) the risk factor score, determining that the vehicle is suitable to operate in an incentive mode while fulfilling the fleet-level objective, wherein the incentive mode comprises incentivizing the ride requestor to accept one or more modifications to the ride criteria associated with the ride request so as to fulfill the fleet-level objective;
responsive to determining that the vehicle is suitable to operate in the incentive mode, providing one or more incentives to the ride requestor contingent on acceptance of the one or more modifications to the ride criteria;
after receiving, from the ride requestor, the acceptance of the one or more modifications to the ride criteria, modifying the ride criteria in accordance with the route criteria; and
instructing the vehicle to transport the ride requestor based on the modified ride criteria so as to fulfill the fleet-level objective.