Patent ID: 11884298
Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 5:
6. A system for autonomous vehicle operation, the system comprising an autonomous vehicle comprising a computer that includes a processor configured to implement a method, comprising:
determine that an emergency vehicle is located on a road on which the autonomous vehicle is being driven;
obtain, in response to the determine, a driving related operation of the autonomous vehicle to operate around the emergency vehicle, wherein the obtain the driving related operation includes:
perform a first determination that the autonomous vehicle is driving on the road on a first lane having one side that is immediately adjacent to an area or another lane where the emergency vehicle is located,
perform a second determination that the road includes a second lane immediately adjacent to the first lane and on another side opposite to the one side, and
perform a third determination, in response to the first determination and the second determination, of an amount of steering to apply to steer the autonomous vehicle from the first lane to the second lane; and

cause the autonomous vehicle to drive according to the driving related operation by the processor configured to send instructions related to the driving related operation to one or more devices in the autonomous vehicle, wherein the instructions that cause the autonomous vehicle to drive according to the driving related operation include a first instruction that causes the autonomous vehicle to apply the amount of steering to steer the autonomous vehicle from the first lane to the second lane.