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NEMEC PHILIP / AULA ANNE KRISTIINA / LU DAVID TSE-ZHOU / CULLINANE BRIAN DOUGLAS / JOHNSON CALVIN KARL / SHANE ALBERT / LUDWICK CHRISTOPHER / AHN YOOJUNG

Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a vehicle 100 for maneuvering a passenger to a destination autonomously. The vehicle 100 includes one or more computing devices 110 and a set of user input buttons 612, 614 for communicating requests to stop the vehicle and to initiate a trip to the destination with the one or more computing devices. The set of user input buttons consisting essentially of a dual-purpose button and an emergency stopping button 612 different from the dual-purpose button 614 configured to stop the vehicle. The dual-purpose button 614 has a first purpose for communicating a request to initiate the trip to the destination and a second purpose for communicating a request to pull the vehicle over and stop the vehicle. The vehicle has no steering wheel and no user inputs for the steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle other than the set of user input buttons.

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Title :

Autonomous vehicles

Contributors:

NEMEC PHILIP (author) / AULA ANNE KRISTIINA (author) / LU DAVID TSE-ZHOU (author) / CULLINANE BRIAN DOUGLAS (author) / JOHNSON CALVIN KARL (author) / SHANE ALBERT (author) / LUDWICK CHRISTOPHER (author) / AHN YOOJUNG (author)

Publication date :

2018-05-10

Type of media :

Patent

Type of material :

Electronic Resource

Language :

English

Classification :

IPC:

G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / B60R Fahrzeuge, Fahrzeugausstattung oder Fahrzeugteile, soweit nicht anderweitig vorgesehen , VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR