US 12,025,981 B2
System and method for automatically detecting erratic behaviour of another vehicle with a vehicle's autonomous driving system
Anthony Levandowski, San Francisco, CA (US); and Catherine Culkin, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Kache.Al, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by KACHE.AI, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/796,334.
Application 16/796,334 is a continuation of application No. 16/511,968, filed on Jul. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0018917 A1, Jan. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/292 (2017.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); H04N 13/246 (2018.01)
CPC G05D 1/0088 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0287 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06T 7/292 (2017.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); G06T 7/85 (2017.01); H04N 13/246 (2018.05); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10012 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
receiving sensor data from a sensor of a first vehicle while the first vehicle is in an autonomous drive mode;
determining that a parameter of a second vehicle followed by the first vehicle has changed, wherein the second vehicle is not in an autonomous drive mode;
determining the changed parameter indicates a condition that affects safe operation of the second vehicle; and
providing, by the first vehicle and to the second vehicle, a message including an instruction, which causes an autonomous drive system, of the second vehicle, to:
autonomously enter the autonomous drive mode, where the autonomous drive system of the second vehicle assumes control of the second vehicle from a human driver; and
autonomously pull over, using the autonomous drive system, the second vehicle from a roadway.