Autonomous vehicle having an external shock-absorbing energy dissipation padding
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1. An autonomous on-road vehicle comprising:
- an outer nontransparent Shock-Absorbing Energy Dissipation Padding (outer nontransparent SAEDP) mounted, during normal driving, to the front side of the vehicle at eye level of an occupant who sits in a front seat of the vehicle;
a camera mounted to the vehicle and configured to take video of the outside environment in front of the occupant; and
a computer configured to generate, based on the video, a representation of the outside environment at eye level for the occupant.
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Abstract
An autonomous on-road vehicle having an outer nontransparent Shock-Absorbing Energy Dissipation Padding (SAEDP). In one embodiment, the SAEDP is mounted, during normal driving, to the front side of the vehicle at eye level of an occupant who sits in a front seat of the vehicle. A camera is mounted to the vehicle and takes video of the outside environment in front of the occupant. And a computer generates a representation of the outside environment at eye level for the occupant.
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1. An autonomous on-road vehicle comprising:
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an outer nontransparent Shock-Absorbing Energy Dissipation Padding (outer nontransparent SAEDP) mounted, during normal driving, to the front side of the vehicle at eye level of an occupant who sits in a front seat of the vehicle; a camera mounted to the vehicle and configured to take video of the outside environment in front of the occupant; and a computer configured to generate, based on the video, a representation of the outside environment at eye level for the occupant. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An autonomous on-road vehicle comprising:
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an outer nontransparent Shock-Absorbing Energy Dissipation Padding (outer nontransparent SAEDP) stored above or below a windshield located at eye level in front of an occupant who sits in a front seat of the vehicle; a motor configured to move the outer nontransparent SAEDP between a first state, in which the outer nontransparent SAEDP does not block the occupant'"'"'s eye level frontal view to the outside environment, and a second state, in which the outer nontransparent SAEDP blocks the occupant'"'"'s eye level frontal view to the outside environment, multiple times without having to be repaired; and a processor configured to receive an indication that a probability of an imminent pedestrian-vehicle collision reaches a threshold, and to command the motor to move the outer nontransparent SAEDP from the first state to the second state. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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