REAL-TIME ROAD CONDITION MONITORING AND COMMUNICATION AMONGST AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES FOR IMPROVED SAFETY

Abstract: an autonomous driving system for a vehicle includes a plurality of perception systems configured to monitor an environment external to the vehicle and a controller configured to execute an autonomous driving feature and, during the execution of the autonomous driving feature, scan, using the plurality of perception systems, the environment external to the vehicle for nearby hazards, detect a first hazard based on the scanning, report, to a server computing system via a network, the detected first hazard and the vehicle geo-location, and selectively update the autonomous driving feature based on the detected first hazard by generating an updated output as part of the autonomous driving feature.

Inventor(s): Andrew D. Johnson

CPC Classification: B60W60/0015 ({specially adapted for safety})

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