Uber Technologies, Inc.
Methods and Systems for Configuring and Instructing Autonomous Vehicles

Abstract:

The present disclosure is directed to configuring and instructing autonomous vehicles. In particular, one or more computing devices can receive, from a plurality of different autonomous vehicles, data describing travel completed by the plurality of different autonomous vehicles within a geographic area. The computing device(s) can also receive data indicating one or more model parameters for the geographic area. Based at least in part on the data describing the travel and the data indicating the model parameter(s), the computing device(s) can generate one or more models indicating one or more effects of the plurality of different autonomous vehicles on a transportation market for the geographic area. Based at least in part on the model(s), the computing device(s) can generate data indicating instructions for at least one autonomous vehicle of the plurality of different autonomous vehicles and can communicate such data to the at least one autonomous vehicle.