Patent ID: 9557736
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G05D,G06K,G08G

Claim:
1. A method for identifying parked vehicles, the method comprising: detecting, by one or more computing devices, a set of vehicles; identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a second set of vehicles, the vehicles in the second set being one or more vehicles in the first set having zero velocity; detecting, by the one or more computing devices, one or more visible indicia of the second set of vehicles; identifying, by the one or more computing devices, one or more traffic control factors relating to the second set of vehicles; identifying, by the one or more computing devices, a third set of vehicles as parked, the vehicles in the third set being one or more vehicles in the second set that are at least one of controlling, by the one or more computing devices, an autonomous vehicle in accordance with a control strategy corresponding to an identification of a vehicle in the first set.