Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Modular vehicles with detachable pods
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Application No.: US16751414Application Date: 2020-01-24
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Publication No.: US11454985B1Publication Date: 2022-09-27
- Inventor: Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen , Kristina Liv Larsen , Martin Friedrich Schubert , Michael Patrick Bauerly , Michael Jason Grundmann , Rowan M. Ogden , Philip Edwin Watson
- Applicant: X Development LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06D1/00
- IPC: G06D1/00 ; B62D31/00 ; G05D1/02 ; G05D1/00

Abstract:
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to modular vehicles including separable pod and base units. In some implementations, a computing system installed in a vehicle base identifies a vehicle pod that is detachably connected to a chassis on the vehicle base. In response to identifying that the vehicle pod is detachably connected to the chassis on the vehicle base, a communications link can be established between the computing system installed in the vehicle base and a computing system installed in the vehicle pod. Based on information obtained through the communications link, the computing system installed in the vehicle base can determine a particular configuration of the vehicle pod that is detachably connected to the chassis. The computing system can then verify that the vehicle base can safely transport the vehicle pod while the vehicle pod is detachably connected.
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