Nvidia Patents a Hidden Infrared System That Maps Your Car's Cabin in 3D
Nvidia wants to fill a vehicle cabin with invisible infrared light and hidden cameras — not to take photos, but to build…
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Nvidia Patents a Multi-Sensor System for Automatically Controlling a Self-Driving Car's Lights
Knowing when to switch on your headlights sounds trivial — until you're a self-driving car navigating a tunnel, an overcast highway, and…
Zoox Patents an AI That Maps Live Traffic Flow as a Grid of Directional Arrows
Knowing that a car is nearby is one thing. Knowing exactly where it's headed and how fast — at every point in…
IBM Patent Lets Self-Driving Cars Decide Their Own Automation Level as a Group
Instead of letting each car figure out how autonomous to be on its own, IBM wants a central AI to pool data…
Sony's New Patent Puts Screens on Car Hoods to Warn Pedestrians Where the Car Is Headed
Imagine a car that can literally show you where it's about to go — not with a blinking turn signal, but with…
Amazon's New Patent Wants to Bolt Sensors onto Regular Cars to Train Its Self-Driving AI
Zoox wants to train its self-driving AI without putting its own autonomous vehicles on every road first — and the trick is…
Tesla's New Patent Teaches Its Cars to Read Where Every Lane Leads
Tesla is patenting a way for its cars to figure out — using cameras alone — which lanes lead where, which merge,…
Nvidia's New Patent Maps a Car's Interior Before Deciding If the Driver Is Drowsy
Before a car's camera system can reliably tell if a driver is drowsy or a child is left in the back seat,…
Waymo's New Patent Puts AI Inside the Camera So It Spots Objects Before Sending Anything
Waymo is filing a patent for cameras that don't just take pictures — they identify objects on their own, right inside the…
Waymo's New Patent Teaches Its Cars to See a Few Seconds Into the Future
Before a Waymo car makes its next move, it helps to already "see" what's about to happen. This patent describes a training…
Waymo's New Patent Teaches Its Cars to Notice When Their Radar Is Going Deaf
A radar that doesn't know it's broken is arguably worse than no radar at all. Waymo is filing a patent for a…
Apple Patents a Road-by-Road Wireless Quality Map for Self-Driving Cars
A self-driving car that loses its data connection at the wrong moment is a safety problem, not just an inconvenience. Apple's new…
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