	US 12,134,401 B2
	Local assistance for autonomous vehicle-enabled rideshare service
Diego Plascencia-Vega, San Francisco, CA (US); Dogan Gidon, Berkeley, CA (US); and Nestor Grace, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/550,324.
Prior Publication US 2023/0182771 A1, Jun. 15, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01)

CPC B60W 60/0011 (2020.02) [B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); B60W 60/0016 (2020.02); B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); G05D 1/0011 (2013.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); B60W 2050/0022 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0054 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02)]

13 Claims

1. A method comprising:

subsequent to an event causing an autonomous vehicle to become immobilized, initiating a local assistance request;

subsequent to the initiating, receiving local assistance input from a passenger of the autonomous vehicle, wherein the receiving local assistance comprises presenting the passenger with a plurality of options from which to select and prompting the passenger to select one of the presented options, each of the options having a confidence value above a threshold confidence value, wherein the threshold confidence value is selected based at least in part on a trust score assigned to the passenger; and

determining an action to be taken by the autonomous vehicle to mobilize the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the received local assistance input.