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Amazon Gets Network Patent To Connect To Self-Driving Cars

  • Re/code, Wednesday, January 18, 2017 9:47 AM

Amazon was awarded a patent for a network that manages a very specific aspect of the self-driving experience: How autonomous cars navigate reversible lanes. Reversible lanes indicate a change in direction of traffic with an overhead signal, making it a potential disaster zone for self-driving cars that haven’t yet been programmed to understand those signals. In the patent, Amazon outlines a network that can communicate with self-driving vehicles so they can adjust to the change in traffic flow. That’s particularly important for self-driving vehicles traveling across state lines onto new roads with unfamiliar traffic laws.

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  1. R MARK REASBECK from www.USAonly.US , January 18, 2017 at 10:40 a.m.

    I like it. It will be a lot easier for attornies to go after one company this way

    How can any sane person read this article with so many references to "potential disaster zone"
    "haven't yet been programmed", "traveling across state lines", "unfamiliar traffic laws".

    I personally have never gotten behind the wheel and asked these questions to my self, BECAUSE
    I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN MY DRIVING ABILITY, but now I got to be on the lookout for cars guided by clusters of computer chips and no common sense.

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