Ok here is something that should occupy the 1,000 Eyes for the next few weeks.
Ford entered an EAP with Brainchip for ADAS and AV in May, 2020.
In late August, 2020 Ford filed the following patent:
appft.uspto.gov
Everyone here has read about Neuralink and a host of other research relating to brain machine interface and every single one requires the ability to recognise the signals produced by the brain and or muscles of the body. In fact we have had a constant flow of could this be AKIDA due to the fact that spiking neural networks seem to be what is required to process these signals coming from the brain in an efficient manner for robotics and artificial limbs.
We know that Ford did not want to be disclosed but the ASX forced Brainchip's hand on this issue. We know that Ford is often spoken of in hushed tones by Brainchip or not at all but Ford continues in the background to be an EAP.
The above patent is so revolutionary in regards to autonomous vehicle management it would certainly provide a basis for the type of security around what Brainchip and Ford are doing so I will leave it to you to decide but what other company could be providing the necessary technology for this purpose that currently and in 2020 was engaged with Ford?
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA
Hi everyone and Dio in particular,
I have been marshalling an understanding of this Ford patent and how it works to put forward my own lay explanation of the problem and the Ford patent solution.
Not having an autonomous vehicle in my garage I was unaware of what Ford has identified as a problem before reading the patent but I think it is as follows:
I am driving along in my up to Level 4 autonomous vehicle requiring me to also monitor the road ahead.
Currently there are head tilt camera warning systems that try to measure if I am not carefully observing the road ahead. These systems are not fool proof as I am not a perfect human specimen and can be watching even when to a head tilt camera I appear not to be.
Even radar or lidar watching my eyes and facial expressions for fatigue fall down for the same reason.
But you say surely that is a good thing that the autonomous vehicle will not depend upon me and will take action to avoid the unfolding changes in traffic that it thinks I have not seen and issues me with an alert to pay attention while it hits the brakes and pulls to the left or whatever.
Well according to Ford this is not a good thing.
I suspect when you consider that at highway speeds lots of things can happen very, very quickly giving me a warning or taking action can affect the action I am about to take as unbeknown to the autonomous vehicle despite my appearance to its system I am actually watching the road ahead and had a planned course of action which was at variance with the autonomous vehicles planned course of action. This leads to the autonomous vehicle and myself both acting at the same time which might be at odds one with the other.
This situation in my mind would be analogous to the passenger in a non autonomous vehicle fearing that I was not watching the roadway ahead grabbing the wheel at the same time as I was engaged in taking action. This might not be very pretty.
So the revolutionary idea behind this patent is that if the autonomous system was able to monitor brain pulses or muscle contractions of the driver early enough or in real time it could tell if I was despite my appearance watching the semi trailer ahead jack knifing down the three lanes ahead and in the process of taking action as required.
Thus knowing this the autonomous system would not interfere with what I was doing and thereby distract me causing an adverse outcome in such circumstances.
The thing about this system though is that it could not possibly depend upon the cloud as the autonomous system is measuring my brain muscle response immediately before it would intervene and so it all needs to be happening in microseconds or less as even a 1 second delay at 110 kilometres per hour on a wet expressway down hill would be too long to delay taking action by either myself or the autonomous system.
My excitement about this patent is because I have never in all my reading about autonomous vehicle development read that this problem existed and hence this patent from Ford is the first time I have read of a possible solution.
This is the ultimate wearable technology and would also have applications in workplaces where robots and humans work together to achieve an outcome.
As I said AKIDA technology is tailor made to do this job and is anything from 2 to 3 years at least ahead of any possible competitors with a solid patent wall.
My opinion only DYOR
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AKIDA BALLISTA