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Granted Patent B2
US 10,234,870 · App. 15/458,042 · Granted Mar 19, 2019

Autonomous public transportation system

Inventor: Yosef Benraz (Herzliya, IL)
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Patent No.
US 10,234,870
App. No.
15/458,042
Granted
Mar 19, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for providing separable vehicles from a main vehicle to pick up or drop off passengers and return and reconnect to the main vehicle.

Claims (12)

1. A method for transport comprising:

providing a single vehicle including a primary vehicle and a secondary vehicle separable from the primary vehicle;

separating the secondary vehicle from the primary vehicle, allowing the secondary vehicle to travel along a route different from the route of the primary vehicle to pick up or drop off passengers; and,

the secondary vehicle rejoining the primary vehicle as the single vehicle, for loading and unloading passengers to and from the primary vehicle, while the single vehicle travels along the route of the primary vehicle.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the secondary vehicle includes an autonomous bus station which allows passengers to get on and get off the autonomous bus station.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the primary vehicle changes routes, to accommodate changes in road conditions.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the primary vehicle includes a vehicle, controlled by at least one of: a driver, semi-automatically, or autonomously.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the secondary vehicle includes a vehicle, controlled by at least one of: a driver, semi-automatically, or autonomously.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the loading and unloading of passengers is performed by a seat which automatically moves between the primary and secondary vehicles.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the secondary vehicle moves passengers between two or more primary vehicles.

8. The method of claim 1 , additionally comprising: coordinating communication between the primary vehicle and the secondary vehicle, and passenger, such that a time and location of a secondary vehicle to attach to a primary vehicle to load and or unload a passenger is determined.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the attaching and detaching between the primary vehicle and the secondary vehicle is performed automatically.

Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62308030 · Mar 14, 2016
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