US 12,280,783 B2
Autonomous narrow vehicle lane sharing, filtering, and splitting system
Richard Winston Woodbury, Spokane, WA (US)
Assigned to Commuter Cars Corporation, Spokane, WA (US)
Filed by Commuter Cars Corporation, Spokane, WA (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/133,188.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/453,818, filed on Mar. 22, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0317232 A1, Sep. 26, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/18163 (2013.01) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2530/201 (2020.02); B60W 2552/05 (2020.02); B60W 2552/10 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4045 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4046 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4049 (2020.02); B60W 2720/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A narrow track autonomous vehicle comprising:
a sensor disposed on the narrow track autonomous vehicle, the narrow track autonomous vehicle having a width that is at most half the width of a standard lane;
one or more processors; and
one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the narrow track autonomous vehicle to perform operations comprising:
receiving sensor data from the sensor;
determining, based at least in part on the sensor data, that the narrow track autonomous vehicle is traversing a lane that is at least 10 feet wide;
dividing, based at least in part on the lane being at least 10 feet wide, the lane into a first virtual lane associated with a left half of the lane and a second virtual lane associated with a right half of the lane;
determining a lane type associated with the lane; and
causing the narrow track autonomous vehicle to traverse one of the first virtual lane or the second virtual lane based at least in part on the lane type.