In his desire to be the best builder of cars in the world Volkswagen Group not stop to investigate how it can revolutionize their cars facing the imminent future that is presented. This future is not more than the driving autonomous and any of its expressions, that is to say, semi-autonomous or fully. the German group has been developing a new system of driving autonomous that we bring to you thanks to the drawings of his patent.
In this case Volkswagen has patented a system that would allow the driver to tell the system how to react to a situation and you would not have to disable necessarily the system self-drive. To do this by using a touch-sensitive surface located above shift lever, the driver can control the driving and at the same time communicate with the car. In this case, when the driving system self-detects a problem through a system of lights and alerts warn the driver to decide what to do.
The touch surface also enables or disables the stand alone mode. For example, if someone wants to take control of the driving would only have to put one hand on the panel for a second or two and could be enabled or disabled by the system quickly and easily. In addition to next to this command touch would have a screen located on the dashboard of the vehicle. In it, the driver will have to hand all information relative to the conduct as well as the infotainment in the vehicle.
This screen is supplemented with a ring of lights leds which are placed around the touch panel of the shift lever. With this ring warns the driver has to make decisions that has left outstanding or alert you that you have to be alert to incidents that may occur.
The color of these leds may vary depending on the type of alert to the that we face. Could be of color blue or green when there is still enough time to make a choice or take a decision. On the other hand if the decision is urgent or very important, the color could change to red in order to draw the attention as soon as possible.
To finish we must mention that the patent does not describe what would happen if a user does not enter a command or makes a decision important, although it is assumed that if the driver does not intervene in the stand-alone system then you would have to decide and take control of the situation.
Source – European Patent Office
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