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

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
monitoring, by one or more computer processors, road conditions of a road on which an autonomous vehicle is traveling;
detecting, by one or more computer processors, a visual indication of a water accumulation on the road;
determining, by one or more computer processors, whether one or more other vehicles are detected on the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle;
responsive to determining the one or more other vehicles are detected on the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle, requesting, by one or more computer processors, information associated with road conditions of the road ahead of the autonomous vehicle from the one or more other vehicles;
based on a response to the request from the one or more other vehicles, determining, by one or more computer processors, the one or more other vehicles did not detect the water accumulation; and
determining, by one or more computer processors, the visual indication of the water accumulation is a mirage, wherein the mirage is an optical phenomenon that creates an illusion of water resulting from the refraction of light through a non-uniform medium.