An autonomous on-road vehicle includes a window (120, figure 17a) located at eye level of an occupant who sits in a front seat of the vehicle, a reusable nontransparent Shock-Absorbing Energy Dissipation Padding (SAEDP) 121, and a motor (122) that moves the SAEDP over a sliding mechanism 123 between first and second states multiple times without having to be repaired. The vehicle also includes a processor (124) that receives, from an autonomous-driving control system, an indication that a probability of an imminent pedestrian-vehicle collision reaches a threshold, and commands the motor to move the SAEDP from the first state to the second state. In the first state the SAEDP does not block the occupant's eye level frontal view to the outside environment, and in the second state the SAEDP blocks the occupant's eye level frontal view to the outside environment and also absorbs some of the crashing energy transmitted to a pedestrian during a pedestrian-vehicle collision. The SAEDP may be a pneumatic pad or a passive material. A camera and display may be provided so that the occupant may see the outside environment when the SAEDP is in the second state.
Autonomous vehicle having an external shock-absorbing energy dissipation padding
2019-09-25
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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