Adjustable automatic window tinting for autonomous vehicles

The present disclosure provides a method comprising receiving a rideshare request from a user, the rideshare request including a destination; transporting the passenger to the destination using an autonomous vehicle (AV) having a plurality of windows comprising electrically switchable smart glass; d...

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Hauptverfasser:	Brandon, Jeffrey, Schmidt, Michael Frank, Glidden, Samuel Harrison, Euchenhofer, Maximilian Gerrit, Ferguson, Kenneth Ramon
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES CONTROLLING COUNTING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS, THE OPTICAL OPERATION OF WHICH ISMODIFIED BY CHANGING THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM OF THEDEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF THE INTENSITY,COLOUR, PHASE, POLARISATION OR DIRECTION OF LIGHT, e.g.SWITCHING, GATING, MODULATING OR DEMODULATING FREQUENCY-CHANGING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS MEASURING MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS NAVIGATION NON-LINEAR OPTICS OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS OPTICS PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY PHYSICS REGULATING REMOVABLE EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE COVERINGS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORVEHICLES ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT SURVEYING SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR TECHNIQUES OR PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF TESTING TRANSPORTING VEHICLES IN GENERAL WINDOWS, WINDSCREENS, NON-FIXED ROOFS, DOORS, OR SIMILARDEVICES FOR VEHICLES
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Zusammenfassung:	The present disclosure provides a method comprising receiving a rideshare request from a user, the rideshare request including a destination; transporting the passenger to the destination using an autonomous vehicle (AV) having a plurality of windows comprising electrically switchable smart glass; during the transporting, monitoring a metric related to arrival of the AV at the destination; and untinting the windows when the monitored metric has a prescribed relationship to a threshold value.