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

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer readable program storage medium having code stored thereon, the code, when executed by a processor, causing the processor to implement a method comprising:
determining, by a computer located in an autonomous vehicle, that an emergency vehicle is located on a road on which the autonomous vehicle is being driven;
obtaining, in response to the determining, a driving related operation of the autonomous vehicle to operate around the emergency vehicle, wherein the obtaining the driving related operation includes:
performing 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,
performing 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

performing 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
causing the autonomous vehicle to drive according to the driving related operation by sending 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.