Patent ID: 9317033
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: B60W,G05D,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of control of a terrestrial vehicle configured to adopt two modes of operation, the modes including: a manual mode, in which driving is dependent on vehicle driver commands, and an autonomous mode, in which driving is dependent on data received from sensors configured to provide information about an environment of the terrestrial vehicle and on data received from a navigation system, the method comprising: authorizing the autonomous mode only when the terrestrial vehicle is situated within a site determined by defined boundaries; receiving booking data from a user interface; formulating a directive message to be transmitted to the terrestrial vehicle as a function of the received booking data; and transmitting the directive message to the terrestrial vehicle so that the terrestrial vehicle autonomously moves in correspondence with the transmitted directive message, wherein the transmitted directive message includes information relating to a user for the terrestrial vehicle.