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

Claim 15:
16. A computer system comprising:
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer readable storage media;
program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
program instructions to monitor road conditions of a road on which an autonomous vehicle is traveling;
program instructions to detect a visual indication of a water accumulation on the road;
program instructions to determine 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, program instructions to request 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, program instructions to determine the one or more other vehicles did not detect the water accumulation; and
program instructions to determine 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.