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Traffic signal response for autonomous vehicles

  • US 9,707,960 B2
  • Filed: 07/31/2014
  • Issued: 07/18/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • identifying, by one or more computing devices internal to a vehicle, a time when a traffic signal light will turn from yellow to red;

    estimating, by the one or more computing devices internal to the vehicle, a location of the vehicle at the identified time that a traffic signal light will turn from yellow to red;

    detecting, by the one or more computing devices internal to the vehicle, a starting marker at an intersection associated with a traffic signal light while the vehicle is in motion;

    determining, by the one or more computing devices internal to the vehicle, whether the estimated location of the vehicle will be at least a threshold distance past the starting marker into the intersection; and

    when the estimated location of the vehicle is determined to be at least a threshold distance past the starting marker into the intersection, determining, by the one or more computing devices internal to the vehicle, that the vehicle should continue through the intersection.

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