US Patent 10299216 Self-driving vehicle actions in response to a low battery

Vehicle management systems can be configured to help govern self-driving vehicles. A vehicle management system can communicatively couple a self-driving vehicle to a remote computing device of a user of the vehicle. Detecting a battery charge indication below a threshold can trigger several responses configured to minimize the risk of the self-driving vehicle failing to pick up the user due to the remote computing device having a low or dead battery.