SECONDARY DISENGAGE ALERT FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Abstract: aspects of the disclosure provide for determining when to provide and providing secondary disengage alerts for a vehicle having autonomous and manual driving modes. for instance, while the vehicle is being controlled in the autonomous driving mode, user input is received at one or more user input devices of the vehicle. in response to receiving the user input, the vehicle may be transitioned from the autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode and provide a primary disengage alert to an occupant of the vehicle regarding the transition. whether to provide a secondary disengage alert may be determined based on at least circumstances of the user input. after the transition, the secondary disengage alert may be provided based on the determination.

Inventor(s): Philip Nemec, Keith Hutchings, Julien Charles Mercay, Annissa Al-Alusi, Saswat Panigrahi, Cristi Landy, Matthew Schwall

CPC Classification: B60W50/10 (Interpretation of driver requests or demands)

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