Environment Adaptive Electric Vehicle with Lock On Security and Control Saddle

Abstract

The Environment Adaptive Electric Vehicle (EAEV) is capable of operating in a number of operating environments such as on a conventional highway, or on an elevated mainstream transportation infrastructure and also on a variety of local, low velocity, low volume, automated and semi-automated transportation infrastructures that may serve as collector roads for vehicles to access the mainstream elevated integrated bimodal infrastructures. The EAEV has a variety of sensors, receivers, cameras, monitoring devices, magnetic readers, GPS built into the vehicle. In a typical vehicle all of this information would be interpreted and applied in the same way. In the EAEV the vehicle wants to know what environment it is in. It then uses the software that defines that environment for all of its decisions. As a result, the EAEV uses the same equipment and similar information that is received over the equipment but applies it differently depending on what kind of system the vehicle is travelling on.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 13 / 649,621, filed Oct. 11, 2012, and entitled “Environment Adaptive Electric Vehicle with Lock On Security and Control Saddle,” issued as U.S. Pat. No. 8,950,540 on Feb. 10, 2015, which itself claims priority to co-pending provisional patent application Ser. No. 61 / 546,144 filed on Oct. 12, 2011, and entitled “Environment Adaptive Electric Vehicle with Lock On Security and Control Saddle.” The contents of this co-pending application are fully incorporated herein for all purposes.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present disclosure relates to an automotive vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an automotive vehicle design that can be readily adapted to a variety of environments.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]The use of automotive vehicles is well known in the art. Current vehicles are designed for operation on conventional highways and require continual manual cont...

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Benefits of technology

This patent describes a vehicle that is designed for a guide way with limited access. The vehicle uses a single guiderail to move along the center of the guide way, which is a completely automated system. The vehicle also has bumpers that can compress to a wide degree. The vehicle is powered by in-wheel motors and mounted on non-rotating axles. A solid continuous skirt beam protects the perimeter of the vehicle. The vehicle has on-board sensors and controls to make it safe from accidents, but if there is a broadside accident, the vehicle has a tripping device to neutralize the other vehicle's momentum advantage. The doors are gull wing and open automatically, which solves the head room problem and difficulty getting in and out of a smaller vehicle. The doors operate from the center of the vehicle, which allows for extra headroom.

Problems solved by technology

However, unlike in other vehicles or machines, how all these devices are used depends upon the surface transportation environment it is currently operating within.

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