Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous vehicles
- Patent Title (中): 自主车辆
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Application No.: US14455215Application Date: 2014-08-08
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Publication No.: US09436182B2Publication Date: 2016-09-06
- Inventor: Philip Nemec , Anne Aula , David Tse-Zhou Lu , Brian Cullinane , Calvin Karl Johnson , Albert Shane , Christopher Ludwick , YooJung Ahn
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Main IPC: G05D1/00
- IPC: G05D1/00 ; G05D1/02 ; B60K28/02 ; G08B25/01

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle for maneuvering a passenger to a destination autonomously. The vehicle includes one or more computing devices and a set of user input buttons for communicating requests to stop the vehicle and to initiate a trip to the destination with the one or more computing devices. The set of user input buttons consisting essentially of a dual-purpose button and an emergency stopping button different from the dual-purpose button configured to stop the vehicle. The dual-purpose button has a first purpose for communicating a request to initiate the trip to the destination and a second purpose for communicating a request to pull the vehicle over and stop the vehicle. The vehicle has no steering wheel and no user inputs for the steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle other than the set of user input buttons.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150338849A1 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2015-11-26
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