Autonomous vehicles that interact with pedestrians: A survey of theory and practice

A Rasouli, JK Tsotsos - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the major challenges that autonomous cars are facing today is driving in urban
environments. To make it a reality, autonomous vehicles require the ability to communicate …

How should automated vehicles interact with pedestrians? A comparative analysis of interaction concepts in virtual reality

A Löcken, C Golling, A Riener - … of the 11th international conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Automated vehicles (AVs) introduce a new challenge to human-computer interaction (HCI):
pedestrians are no longer able to communicate with human drivers. Hence, new HCI …

Controlling driving modes of self-driving vehicles

MS Gordon, JR Kozloski, A Kundu, PK Malkin… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product control a
driving mode of a self-driving vehicle (SDV). One or more processors detect that an SDV is …

Controlling driving modes of self-driving vehicles

MS Gordon, JR Kozloski, A Kundu, PK Malkin… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program
product controls a driving mode of a self-driving vehicle (SDV). Sensor readings describe a …

Lighting device for a vehicle

M Sweeney, T Pilarski, WP Ross, C Liu - US Patent 9,902,311, 2018 - Google Patents
ABSTRACT A control system of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) can process sensor data from a
sensor system of the SDV to autono mously control acceleration, steering, and braking …

Intention signaling for an autonomous vehicle

WP Ross, C Liu - US Patent 9,969,326, 2018 - Google Patents
(AV) can monitor sensor information indicating a situational environment of the AV, and
detect an external entity based, at least in part, on the sensor data. The intention signaling …

Autonomously servicing self-driving vehicles

SM Keohane, GF McBrearty, SP Mullen… - US Patent …, 2017 - Google Patents
A method and/or computer program product autonomously drives a self-driving vehicle
(SDV) to a service facility. One or more processors receive sensor readings from an SDV …

Automatically providing explanations for actions taken by a self-driving vehicle

MS Gordon, CA Pickover, M Vukovic - US Patent 10,093,322, 2018 - Google Patents
A method causes a self-driving vehicle (SDV) to warn passengers of an upcoming
maneuver, and to explain why the SDV will be making the upcoming maneuver. One or …

Automated spatial separation of self-driving vehicles from other vehicles based on occupant preferences

MS Gordon, JR Kozloski, A Kundu, PK Malkin… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product automatically
provides spatial separation between a self-driving vehicle (SDV) operating in an …

Automated vehicle communications system

W Ross, M Aitken - US Patent 10,036,642, 2018 - Google Patents
An automated vehicle (AV) can be managed by a backend system and include an
acceleration, braking, and steering system, an AV control system to maneuver the AV …