Patent ID: 11928961
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A method for use in controlling the speed of a vehicle, the method comprising:
providing, by one or more processors in a vehicle to a server device, an indication of a location of the vehicle;
receiving, at the one or more processors from the server device, an indication of a target speed based on a threshold following distance for the vehicle to travel at when the vehicle is approaching a road segment having more than a threshold amount of traffic, wherein the traffic is not caused by an accident, a lane closure, construction, or a traffic signal, wherein the threshold following distance is based on a traffic density of the road segment, and wherein the threshold following distance decreases as the traffic density increases;
determining, by the one or more processors, a current speed of the vehicle; and
controlling the vehicle speed by outputting, by the one or more processors, a feedback signal of the target speed for the vehicle to travel at the target speed.