Communicating the autonomy status of vehicles
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDavid Relihan, Michael O'Reilly
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Abstract
In one example, an autonomy system assigns a trust level to a vehicle, wherein the trust level is a lowest trust level. The autonomy system may modify the trust level to fully autonomous in response to an indicator light providing a fully autonomous status prior to a maneuver as indicated by the indicator light. Additionally, the autonomy system may modify the trust level to driver controlled in response to the indicator light providing a driver controlled status prior to the maneuver as indicated by the indicator light.
Claims24
A system for visible light communications, comprising:
- a receiver to receive an indicator light with encoded visible light communication (VLC) data;
- a memory that is to store instructions and that is communicatively coupled to the display;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled to the light source and the memory, wherein when the processor is to execute the instructions, the processor is to:
- assign a trust level to a vehicle, wherein the trust level is a lowest trust level and is modified based on an autonomy status received in the encoded visible light communication data;
- modify the trust level to fully autonomous in response to the indicator light providing a fully autonomous status prior to a maneuver as indicated by the indicator light;
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- modify the trust level to driver controlled in response to the indicator light providing a driver controlled status prior to the maneuver as indicated by the indicator light.
A method, comprising:
- assigning a trust level to a vehicle, wherein the trust level is a lowest trust level that is modified based on received encoded visible light communication data from an indicator light;
- modifying the trust level to fully autonomous in response to the indicator light providing a fully autonomous status prior to a maneuver as indicated by the indicator light;
- and
- modifying the trust level to driver controlled in response to the indicator light providing a driver controlled status prior to the maneuver as indicated by the indicator light.
An apparatus, comprising:
- a trust level tracker to assign a trust level to a vehicle, wherein the trust level is a lowest trust level that is modified based on received encoded visible light communication data from an indicator light;
- the trust level tracker to modify the trust level to fully autonomous in response to the indicator light providing a fully autonomous status prior to a maneuver as indicated by the indicator light;
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- the trust level tracker to modify the trust level to driver controlled in response to the indicator light providing a driver controlled status prior to the maneuver as indicated by the indicator light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.