公开(公告)号：US20160349750A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-01

申请号：US15176535

申请日：2016-06-08

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Philip Nemec ,  Anne Kristiina Aula ,  David Tse-Zhou Lu ,  Brian Douglas Cullinane ,  Calvin Karl Johnson ,  Albert Shane ,  Christopher Kennedy Ludwick ,  YooJung Ahn

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0055 ,  B60K28/02 ,  B60K35/00 ,  B60K37/06 ,  B60K2350/1008 ,  B60K2350/1024 ,  B60K2350/406 ,  B60W30/06 ,  B60W50/082 ,  B60W2540/04 ,  B60Y2302/05 ,  B62D15/0285 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G05D2201/0212 ,  G08B25/016

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.