Patent ID: 11874663
Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle comprising:
a propulsion system delivering power to propel the vehicle;
a passenger space to accommodate at least one passenger;
one or more first sensors to monitor at least a portion of an environment outside the vehicle;
one or more second sensors to monitor at least a portion of the passenger space; and
a controller operatively coupled to the one or more first sensors, the one or more second sensors, and the propulsion system, the controller including at least one graphics processing unit (GPU) and at least one deep learning accelerator, the controller to, without intervention by a human driver, is configured:
identify a passenger to ride in the vehicle;
control the vehicle to take on the identified passenger;
navigate the vehicle including planning a route to a destination; and
control the vehicle to arrange for the identified passenger to leave the passenger space at the destination,

wherein the controller provides massively parallel processing and the vehicle achieves an ISO 26262 level 4 or higher certification.