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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2020
X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Johan Ulrich Lewin Jessen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kristina Liv Larsen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Martin Friedrich Schubert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Patrick Bauerly, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Jason Grundmann, San Jose, CA (US);
Rowan M. Ogden, Piedmont, CA (US);
Philip Edwin Watson, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to modular vehicles including separable pod and base units. In some implementations, a computing system installed in a vehicle base identifies a vehicle pod that is detachably connected to a chassis on the vehicle base. In response to identifying that the vehicle pod is detachably connected to the chassis on the vehicle base, a communications link can be established between the computing system installed in the vehicle base and a computing system installed in the vehicle pod. Based on information obtained through the communications link, the computing system installed in the vehicle base can determine a particular configuration of the vehicle pod that is detachably connected to the chassis. The computing system can then verify that the vehicle base can safely transport the vehicle pod while the vehicle pod is detachably connected.