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Method for operating an autonomous vehicle on a courier route

  • US 9,835,465 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2016
  • Issued: 12/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of controlling a motor vehicle capable of autonomous operation, comprising:

  • for a route having a first and a second address requiring accomplishment of respective first and second tasks, calculating, by an electronic control system of the vehicle, respective first and second route efficiencies for

         1) autonomously controlling the vehicle by the electronic control system to move the vehicle from a first stop associated with the first address to a second stop associated with the second address after an occupant enters the vehicle, and

         2) autonomously controlling the vehicle by the electronic control system to move the vehicle from the first stop to the second stop without the occupant; and

    if the second efficiency is greater than the first efficiency, causing the vehicle to drive autonomously from the first stop to the second stop without the occupant.

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