Patent ID: 11868138
Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 1:
2. An autonomous vehicle that is to meet a user, the autonomous vehicle comprising:
a receiver that receives location information indicating a current location of a user terminal; and
a processor that, in operation, performs operations including:
calculating a distance from a place of meeting the user to the current location of the user terminal, based on the location information;
causing, when the distance from the place of meeting the user to the current location of the user terminal becomes smaller than or equal to a predetermined distance, the autonomous vehicle to change from a first state to a second state, the first state and the second state being included in a plurality of states, each of the plurality of states being a state in which the autonomous vehicle is at least one of visually or audibly distinguished; and
causing the autonomous vehicle to change from the second state to the first state, when the receiver receives a notification from the user terminal indicating that the user has autonomous vehicle is recognized.