US 12,361,718 B2
Emergency vehicle interaction
Sarah Houts, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Gilbran James Alvarez, Santa Maria, CA (US)
Assigned to EMBARK TRUCKS, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by EMBARK TRUCKS, INC., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/079,139.
Prior Publication US 2024/0193956 A1, Jun. 13, 2024
Int. Cl. G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC G06V 20/56 (2022.01) [B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02); B60W 2756/10 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle, comprising:
a hardware sensor configured to capture light intensity data of an environment surrounding the vehicle;
a network interface; and
a processor configured to:
determine whether an emergency services vehicle is present in the environment surrounding the vehicle based on execution of a machine learning model on the light intensity data captured by the hardware sensor;
in response to determining that the emergency services vehicle is present in the environment surrounding the vehicle, generate an alert to indicate that the vehicle has detected the emergency services vehicle;
control the network interface to transmit the alert from the vehicle to a user interface of a remote computing terminal over a computer network;
receive from an input by a user on the user interface, a command to control the vehicle to stop;
in response to receiving the input, initiate a pull-over sequence for the vehicle;
execute a system check of at least one of an engine of the vehicle, a braking system of the vehicle, and a transmission of the vehicle;
determine whether the vehicle is safe to approach based on execution of the system check;
based on determining that the vehicle is safe to approach, display, on the vehicle, an indicator to a person that the vehicle is safe to approach; and
further based on determining that the vehicle is safe to approach, provide to the person access to an interior of the vehicle.