Patent ID: 11879742
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B  H  Y | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method for using data collected from a plurality of vehicles each having one or more autonomous operation features, comprising:
receiving, at one or more processors from the plurality of vehicles, data corresponding to a road segment on which each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles travelled;
generating, by the one or more processors, an overall indication of a condition of the road segment based upon the data corresponding to the road segment received from the plurality of vehicles; and
determining a recommendation for one or more autonomous operation features based at least in part upon the overall indication of the condition of the road segment;
wherein the recommendation to a vehicle approaching the road segment includes a mode recommendation to change vehicle operation from (a) a manual mode to an autonomous mode, or (b) an autonomous mode to a manual mode.