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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2017
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Valasek, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides systems and methods to boot a computing system of an autonomous vehicle. In particular, the systems and methods of the present disclosure can initialize a basic input output system (BIOS) of a computing system comprising one or more computing devices of an autonomous vehicle. The computing system can utilize data stored in the BIOS and data stored in one or more files comprising a kernel of an operating system of the autonomous vehicle and a random access memory (RAM) drive to verify the kernel and the RAM drive. Responsive to verifying the kernel and the RAM drive, the operating system of the autonomous vehicle can be booted.