AUTONOMOUS-VEHICLE CLIMATE-CONTROL SYSTEM

Controlling a vehicle includes determining that an occupancy status of the vehicle is unoccupied, estimating a remaining unoccupied time, and controlling a climate-control system according to climate-control parameters based on at least the occupancy status and the remaining unoccupied time. A climate-control parameter is a value or set of values for an attribute or attributes of vehicle climate control, such as a power status for the climate-control system as a whole, a target temperature for a passenger cabin, power statuses corresponding to individual climate zones of the passenger cabin, and target temperatures for the individual climate zones. 控制车辆包括确定车辆的占用状态为未被占用，估计剩余未占用时间，以及根据至少基于占用状态和剩余未占用时间的气候控制参数来控制气候控制系统。气候控制参数是车辆气候控制的个或多个属性的值或组值，例如整个气候控制系统的功率状态、乘客舱的目标温度、对应于乘客舱的各自气候区的功率状态、以及各自气候区的目标温度。