Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Kmq, LLC

Quran Buchanan

Joseph I Halaszynski

Chelsia Ka Po Lau

James Kuo

Edmund Pengfei He

Ken Hill

Mitchell Jessie

An autonomous vehicle includes an autonomously driven vehicle frame with a retractable pivot mechanism disposed on a platform surface of the vehicle frame. Changeable utility pods are configured to attach to and be removed from the vehicle frame by way of the retractable pivot mechanism onboard the frame, and autonomously change the vehicle from a passenger transport to a logistics transport by changing utility pods. A processor provides autonomous vehicle operations that include extending the retractable pivot mechanism from a retracted position recessed in the platform surface of the vehicle frame to an extended position that engages a utility pod conveyor channel. The retractable pivot mechanism engages a conveyor channel disposed on a mating surface of a utility pod, and conveys the utility pod along the conveyor channel to a centered and laterally-aligned position on the vehicle frame by rotating the pod into position once centered over the pivot mechanism.

Micro autonomous vehicle with exchangeable utility pods

Stadium watch

Growing community of inventors

Southfield, MI, United States of America

Quran Buchanan