That's the vision embedded in a patent submission by Toyota that was reveiled by the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently.
The patent comes with diagrams that show the logic behind the plan. The smart system will inform how long the wash is expected to take and include that into the journey.
It can even postpone it if passengers are in a hurry to get to a destination.
Toyota has been working on autonomous technology in cars with partners and has also invested in promising start-ups in the field.
Its self-driving e-Palette car will be deployed for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 that were postponed until July next year.
Toyota-backed Pony.ai is also testing autonomous cars in multiple cities across the US and China.
Automated driving is a natural next step in Toyota’s growth as a mobility company. It expands upon traditional automotive capabilities to help people get to where they want and need to be.
And it offers the potential to eliminate traffic fatalities and injuries, reshape cities, reduce emissions and achieve ubiquitous mobility.
According to the World Bank, there are about 1.25 million worldwide traffic fatalities annually and far more traffic injuries. Automated driving technology could drastically reduce this number by helping to prevent crashes caused by human error.
