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OT-2026-000000664

Autonomous vehicle socialization

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Sensors, Controls & Machine Vision › Industrial Control
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US-12602056-B2, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 14 April 2026
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Abstract

Systems and methods for providing opportunities for interactions and communication between vehicles and passengers. In particular, a vehicle socialization platform is provided for facilitating a wide range of social and utilitarian exchanges between vehicles and their occupants, thus providing a community of interconnected vehicles. Vehicle interactions can include passive communication, including vehicles from a particular fleet acknowledging other fleet vehicles without intervention from a passenger or user. Vehicle interactions can include active communication, in which passengers are engaged with and have some control over vehicle communications through dedicated experiences provided in a ridehail application or on an in-vehicle tablet. In particular, some experiences can become dynamically available based on the fleet vehicle's proximity to another fleet vehicle. The vehicle socialization platform is a smart socialization platform that enables two-way communication between vehicles and passengers, facilitating a wide range of social and utilitarian exchanges between vehicles and vehicle occupants.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000000664, “Autonomous vehicle socialization,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:03:13 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000000664.

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