Patent ID: 11899458
Assignee: GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method performed by a computing system that is in communication with a computing device, the method comprising:
obtaining an origin location of a vehicle and a destination location of the vehicle, where the vehicle is to travel over roadways from the origin location to the destination location, and further where at least one of the origin location or the destination location is within a city;
obtaining a first value for a spatiotemporal factor at a first location within the city;
computing a second value for the spatiotemporal factor at a second location within the city, where the second location is along a roadway within a candidate route from amongst several candidate routes between the origin location and the destination location, where the second value for the spatiotemporal factor is computed based upon:
the first value for the spatiotemporal factor at the first location; and
a distance between the first location and the second location;

computing a likelihood value that is indicative of a likelihood of a predefined event occurring at the second location at a time that the vehicle is estimated to be at the second location when travelling the candidate route between the origin location and the destination location, where the likelihood value is computed based upon the second value for the spatiotemporal factor at the second location;
selecting the candidate route from amongst the several candidate routes based upon the likelihood value; and
transmitting the candidate route between the origin location and the destination location to the computing device based upon the candidate route being selected, where the computing device controls at least one of a propulsion system, a braking system, or a steering system of the vehicle based upon the candidate route between the origin location and the destination location.