Route Planning for an Autonomous Vehicle
Among other things, a route to be traveled by an autonomous vehicle as of a time or range of times is selected from a set of two or more candidate routes, all of the candidate routes in the set having a viability status that exceeds a viability threshold.
1 . A computer-implemented method comprising
by computer selecting from a set of two or more candidate routes, a route to be traveled by an autonomous vehicle as of a time or range of times, all of the candidate routes in the set having a viability status that exceeds a viability threshold.
2 . The method of claim 1 in which the viability status comprises an indication that the candidate route can be traveled safely or robustly or both by the autonomous vehicle.
3 . The method of claim 1 comprising receiving information about the candidate routes is a product or feed of data from a source.
4 . The method of claim 1 comprising using information about the candidate routes that is part of road network information.
5 . The method of claim 1 in which the candidate routes include routes containing at least one road segment that has not been validated.