Unmanned vehicles, according to the developers, will be able to make the situation on the roads much more safe. To do this, they give light weight sensors, lidar and cameras, simultaneously teaching the artificial intelligence that controls the autopilot, the rules of the road. In the event of an unavoidable collision at Waymo also have a plan to make the car soft.
Engineers Waymo patented machine design, elements of which are fastened among themselves by elastic elements — this design will help to soften the blow in a collision with a pedestrian. According to the diagram attached to the patent, the car will be able to determine the type of obstacles that she will face. In the case of the inevitable crash with another vehicle, the housing will remain tight, but can be mitigated if the roadway suddenly jumped a pedestrian.
So far, all this remains only a sketch on paper, but we can not exclude that in the future the idea will be tested, because in the Alphabet, which includes Google Waymo, very attentive to security issues. Last year, for example, engineers Waymo patented soft car hood with Velcro, is also designed to minimize the consequences of collisions with pedestrians.
Drones Waymo will be soft?
Vyacheslav Larionov