公开(公告)号：US10545509B1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-28

申请号：US15796576

申请日：2017-10-27

申请人： X Development LLC

发明人： Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen ,  Kristina Liv Larsen ,  Martin Friedrich Schubert ,  Michael Patrick Bauerly ,  Michael Jason Grundmann ,  Rowan M. Ogden ,  Phillip Edwin Watson

IPC分类号： G06D1/00 ,  B62D31/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00

摘要： 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.