---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000000664"
title: "Autonomous vehicle socialization"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:03:13.525717Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000000664"
categories:
  - "sensors-controls-machine-vision/industrial-control"
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# Autonomous vehicle socialization

## 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.