Patent ID: 11859995
Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
subsequent to receiving a service request from a user, wherein the service request identifies a pickup location, and dispatching a first vehicle by a fleet management system to the pickup location, obtaining images of routes between a current location of the user and the pickup location;
receiving the images at the fleet management system, the fleet management system transmitting the received images to a device of the user; and
selectively displaying the images of the routes on a user interface (UI) of the user device substantially in real-time responsive to input from the user;
wherein the route images are obtained using at least one of at least one onboard sensor controlled by an onboard computer of the first vehicle and onboard sensors controlled by onboard computers of a plurality of second vehicles comprising vehicles of a fleet of vehicles operating along the routes and connected to the fleet management system, wherein at least one of the second vehicles is located remotely from and operates independently from the first vehicle along the routes; and
wherein the user selects one or more of the routes for which the images are displayed on the UI via the user device.