Automated vehicle safe stop zone use notification system
US10025316B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 23, 2017 |
| Grant date | Jul 17, 2018 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 23, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08G1/167
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A safe-stop-zone identification system suitable for use on an automated-vehicle includes a digital-map, a transceiver, and a controller. The digital-map indicates a travel-path suitable for travel by a host-vehicle, wherein the digital-map also indicates a safe-stop-zone proximate to the travel-path. The transceiver is operable to broadcast information about the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the digital-map and the transceiver. The controller navigates the host-vehicle into the safe-stop-zone when an emergency-situation occurs, and then operates the transceiver to broadcast that the safe-stop-zone is occupied by the host-vehicle.
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