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User interface for displaying internal state of autonomous driving system

  • US 8,825,261 B1
  • Filed: 01/20/2014
  • Issued: 09/02/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by one or more processors, input at a user input apparatus associated with a steering wheel of a vehicle indicating that a user is ready to relinquish control of the vehicle to a control computer;

    in response to the input, illuminating, by the one or more processors, a portion of the vehicle in a first color to indicate that the control computer is engaged and ready to control the vehicle in an autonomous driving mode; and

    when the control computer begins to control the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode, illuminating, by the one or more processors, the portion of the vehicle in a second color, different from the first color, to indicate that the control computer is controlling the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode.

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