Patent Document ID: 7613569
Application ID: 11458261
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for facilitating the avoidance of a vehicle collision with an object comprising the steps of: a) providing a training environment; b) evolving a good driver using a visual input, wherein the step of evolving a good driver includes the steps of: e) providing an initial population of networks; f) generating visual sensory signals; h) inputting the visual sensory signals to-the a neural network; h) calculating a fitness value: i) repeating steps f-h a plurality of times for each neural network; j) determining which neural network to discard and which neural network to reproduce; k) forming a new population by discarding and reproducing; l) repeating steps i-k a plurality of times; c) evolving a crash predictor using a visual input; d) outputting a warning signal.