Waymo llc (20250061806). Application Monologue for Self-Driving Vehicles

Application Monologue for Self-Driving Vehicles

Organization Name

waymo llc

Inventor(s)

Salil Pandit of Palo Alto CA (US)

Nirmal Patel of Sunnyvale CA (US)

Renaud-Roland Hubert of Gilroy CA (US)

Maria Moon of Mountain View CA (US)

Lauren Schwendimann of Burlingame CA (US)

Guilherme Villar of San Francisco CA (US)

Ryan Powell of San Francisco CA (US)

Peter Crandall of San Jose CA (US)

Matthew Corey Hall of Cupertino CA (US)

Application Monologue for Self-Driving Vehicles

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250061806 titled 'Application Monologue for Self-Driving Vehicles

Original Abstract Submitted

the technology includes communicating the current status of a self-driving vehicle to users, such as passengers within the vehicle and other users awaiting pickup. certain information about the trip and vehicle status is communicated depending on where the passenger is sitting within the vehicle or where the person awaiting pickup is located outside the vehicle. this includes disseminating the “monologue” of a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode to a user via an app on the user's device (e.g., mobile phone, tablet or laptop pc, wearable, or other computing device) and/or an in-vehicle user interface. the monologue includes current status information regarding driving decisions and related operations or actions. this alerts the user as to why the vehicle is taking (or not taking) a certain action, which reduces confusion and allows the user to focus on other matters.