Nvidia Files Patent for Cars That Spot Speed Bumps and Potholes Before Hitting Them
Nvidia's filing describes a car that measures the height of the road ahead and slows for speed bumps and potholes. It does…
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Intel's Self-Driving Safety Patent Can Pull an Autonomous Car Over
A self-driving car that disagrees with itself about what time it is can misjudge the road. Mobileye's patent application describes a way…
Tesla Files Patent for Giving Repair Technicians Temporary, Owner-Approved Access to Your Car's Data
Today a mechanic often has to plug a special gadget into your car to read its data. Tesla's patent describes a sign-in…
Nvidia Files Patent for Teaching Cheap Car Radar to Do the Job of Costly Lasers
Nvidia's patent describes training a cheap radar with the answers from a pricey laser scanner, so the car only needs the radar…
Intel's Self-Driving Division Files Patent to Fix Gaps Between Digital Map Sections
Self-driving maps are built in pieces, and the edges of those pieces do not always line up. Mobileye describes a way to…
Nvidia Files Patent for a Self-Check in Cars That Aren't Sure Where They Are
A self-driving car's sense of where it is can be wrong, and this Nvidia patent has the car grade that guess and…
Nvidia Files Patent for Self-Driving Cars That Preview Where a Move Leads
Before a self-driving car commits to a move, Nvidia's patent has it imagine the scene that would follow and grade that future.…
Nvidia Files Patent on Teaching Self-Driving Cars to Trace Curving Lane Lines
Nvidia's patent has a self-driving car lay a few hundred invisible guide lines over a bird's-eye map, some straight, some slanted, some…
Nvidia Files Patent for Sharper Night Vision From Low-Cost Car Cameras
Cheap car cameras that capture infrared light take blurry, noisy pictures in the dark. Nvidia's patent borrows detail from the color image…
A New Waymo Patent Checks Other Drivers' Turn Signals Against How They're Actually Moving
A blinking orange light can lie to a camera, and a self-driving car that believes every flicker will make bad calls. Waymo's…
Sony Files Patent for Cars That Project Messages Onto the Road and Dodge Puddles
A car that flashes 'After you' onto the road is useless if the words land in a puddle. Sony's patent has the…
Nvidia Files Patent for Cars That Know When They're Towing a Trailer
Back up with a trailer hitched on, and your car's rear sensors see a big object inches away and sound the alarm.…
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