US 11,714,409 B2
Using environmental information to estimate sensor functionality for autonomous vehicles
Mehmet Arda Akman, Santa Cruz, CA (US)
Assigned to Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on May 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/887,703.
Application 16/887,703 is a continuation of application No. 16/014,591, filed on Jun. 21, 2018, granted, now 10,754,336.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/667,167, filed on May 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0371517 A1, Nov. 26, 2020
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 50/029 (2012.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G01C 21/30 (2006.01); B60W 30/188 (2012.01)
CPC G05D 1/0061 (2013.01) [B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B60W 50/029 (2013.01); B60W 30/18 (2013.01); B60W 30/188 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0215 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0292 (2013.01); B60W 2400/00 (2013.01); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02); G01C 21/30 (2013.01); G01C 21/36 (2013.01); G08G 1/00 (2013.01); H02J 7/0018 (2013.01); H02J 7/34 (2013.01); H02J 7/342 (2020.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by one or more processors of a server computing device from one or more first processors of a first vehicle, first information identifying a location and weather condition information collected at that location by the vehicle;
incorporating, by the one or more processors, the first information into an environmental condition map in order to update the environmental condition map; and
providing, by the one or more processors to one or more second processors a second vehicle, updated environmental condition map information based on the updated environmental condition map in order to allow the second vehicle to use the updated environmental condition map information to control the second vehicle in an autonomous driving mode.