Patent ID: 11878717
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 1:
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:
responsive to determining the one or more other vehicles are not detected on the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle, requesting, by one or more computer processors, data associated with the road conditions from one or more service providers;
based on the data associated with the road conditions, determining, by one or more computer processors, whether there is evidence of the water accumulation;
responsive to determining there is no evidence of the water accumulation, determining, by one or more computer processors, whether water has flowed to the road from a nearby body of water; and
responsive to determining water has not flowed to the road from the nearby body of water, determining, by one or more computer processors, the water accumulation is the mirage.