US 11,718,305 B2
Evaluating driving control systems for elegant driving
Michael Jared Benisch, Menlo Park, CA (US); Emilie Jeanne Anne Danna, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Sameer Qureshi, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Lyft, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/911,194.
Application 16/911,194 is a continuation of application No. 16/583,109, filed on Sep. 25, 2019, granted, now 10,696,306.
Prior Publication US 2021/0086779 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 40/09 (2012.01); B60W 40/10 (2012.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01)
CPC B60W 40/09 (2013.01) [B60W 40/10 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0639 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising, by a computing system:
determining a measured driving characteristic of a driving control system based on observations of one or more vehicles driven by the driving control system;
determining a difference between the measured driving characteristic and a target driving characteristic, wherein the target driving characteristic is based on objectivations of one or more manually controlled vehicles;
determining an evaluation objective for the driving control system;
determining a weight function for the evaluation objective;
determining a score for the driving control system with respect to the evaluation objective by weighting the difference between the measured driving characteristic and the target driving characteristic using the weight function; and
applying, based on the score, an adjustment to the driving control system to reduce a difference between a subsequently measured driving characteristic of the driving control system and the target driving characteristic.