Patent ID: 11964672
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. A vehicle controller provided in a vehicle that is able to transport a plurality of passengers by autonomous traveling, comprising a vehicle processor configured to:
determine whether or not a passenger feeling unwell is present in the vehicle;
determine, when it is determined that the passenger feeling unwell is present, a medical facility to which the passenger feeling unwell is transported and a via-point where normal passengers are dropped;
control the vehicle to travel so as to transport the passenger feeling unwell to the medical facility via the via-point; and
acquire desired drop-off places of the passengers in the vehicle, wherein:
the vehicle is a route bus having a service route of the vehicle determined in advance; and
when a bus stop on the service route closest to the medical facility is ahead of a current position of the vehicle and behind one of the desired drop-off places of the normal passengers, direct the vehicle to the one of the desired drop-off places after the vehicle arrives at the medical facility.