Patent ID: 11960901
Assignee: TESLA, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. An autonomous driving controller for a vehicular autonomous driving system that has a plurality of autonomous driving sensors, the autonomous driving controller comprising:
a plurality of parallel processors operating on common input data received from the plurality of autonomous driving sensors, the plurality of parallel processors including, respectively:
a plurality of general processors;
a plurality of security processor subsystems (SCSs), wherein the SCSs are configured to authorize rights of communication with components external to the parallel processors and are configured to grant authorization of individual operations based on agreement of the SCSs regarding the authorization; and
a plurality of safety subsystems (SMSs), wherein the SMSs are configured to determine whether particular outputs associated with the parallel processors are in agreement, wherein the plurality of general processors, the plurality of SCSs, and the plurality of SMSs are configured to:
first, boot the plurality of SCSs from Read Only Memory (ROM) dedicated to the plurality of SCSs;
second, boot the plurality of SMSs; and
third, boot the plurality of general processors.