Patent ID: 11954482
Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  A  B | IPC A  B  G

Claim 14:
15. A tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium storing executable instructions for operating an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle that, when executed by at least one processor of a computer system, cause the computer system to, during operation of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle:
receive operating data regarding one or more autonomous operation features operating the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle, and data regarding a current operating environment of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle;
receive a request from an operator of the vehicle to disable at least one of the one or more autonomous operation features;
determine one or more autonomous operation risk levels associated with current operation of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle in the current operating environment by the one or more autonomous operation features;
determine one or more operator risk levels associated with operation of the autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle in the current operating environment by the vehicle operator based upon one or more of (i) the received operating data, or (ii) driving behavior settings for the vehicle operator;
calculate one or more relative risk levels by comparing the one or more autonomous operation risk levels against the one or more operator risk levels;
determine whether to disable the at least one of the one or more autonomous operation features based upon the one or more relative risk levels;
cause an option to override a determination not to disable the at least one of the one or more autonomous operation features to be presented to the vehicle operator; and
automatically, in response to no receipt of an affirmative selection of the option to override, cause the at least one of the one or more autonomous operation features to be not disabled.