Uber Technologies, Inc.
Systems and Methods for Relaying Requests to Autonomous Vehicles

Abstract:

In one aspect a system for routing requests to autonomous vehicles can include a server computing system configured to perform operations including receiving, at the server computing system, a request from a downstream service; in response to receiving the request, automatically transmitting data describing a request identifier to the downstream service; determining, by the server computing system, that an autonomous vehicle computing system of an autonomous vehicle is available to receive the request; transmitting, from the server computing system to the autonomous vehicle computing system and in response to determining that the autonomous vehicle computing system is available to receive the request, data describing the request from the downstream service; receiving, from the autonomous vehicle computing system, a response from the autonomous vehicle computing system; and transmitting, from the server computing system to the downstream service, data describing the response in association with the request identifier.