Waymo Patents a Microphone System That Lets Robotaxis Hear Sirens Coming
Waymo is patenting a way for its self-driving cars to hear an ambulance coming before any camera can see it — then…
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Waymo Patents a LiDAR System That Adapts to Fog in Real Time
Fog is one of the hardest problems for self-driving cars — and Waymo's new patent describes a LiDAR system that doesn't just…
Nvidia Patents a System That Teaches Self-Driving Cars to Know When They're Flying Blind
Fog, heavy rain, or a dusty highway can cripple a self-driving car's sensors — and the car often doesn't know it's struggling.…
Nvidia Patents a Laser-Targeting System for Calibrating In-Cabin Sensors
Getting an in-car camera to know exactly where the driver's eyes should be looking is harder than it sounds — and Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a Lightweight System for Converting Stereo Camera Data into Bird's Eye Views
Seeing the world from above is incredibly useful for self-driving cars — but doing it cheaply and efficiently on low-power hardware is…
Apple Patents a Single Moving Indicator for Hybrid Vehicle Power Dashboards
Hybrid cars have always had a dashboard problem: two separate gauges for two different powertrains. Apple's new patent collapses them into one.
Nvidia Patents a Synthetic Data Pipeline for 3D Road Surface Detection
Training a self-driving AI to understand road surfaces in three dimensions requires enormous amounts of labeled data — and getting that data…
Tesla Files Patent for Ethernet Ring Network to Replace Traditional Car Wiring
Car wiring harnesses are among the heaviest, most expensive, and most failure-prone components in a modern vehicle. Tesla is patenting a way…
Waymo Patents Transformer-Based AI System for Building Robotaxi Navigation Maps
Waymo is borrowing the same AI architecture that powers ChatGPT to help its self-driving cars understand what's around them — and turn…
Nvidia Patents a Self-Correcting Training Loop for Self-Driving AI
Teaching a self-driving car to recover from a mistake is hard — but generating millions of those recovery moments synthetically, on demand,…
Nvidia Patents an AI System That Maps Traffic Lights to Specific Lanes
Knowing a traffic light is red is only half the problem for a self-driving car — it also needs to know which…
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