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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         18 . A crash resistant vehicle that is operable upon either a conventional roadway or an automated guide way, the vehicle capable of transferring between different guide ways at high velocities, the vehicle comprising:
 a vehicle central beam forming the primary structural frame of the vehicle and extending between front and rear bumper assemblies, the additional portions of the vehicle extending over and around the central beam;   wheels operatively connected to the vehicle;   a connecting device for selectively coupling the central beam to the automated guide way, the connecting device positioned upon an underside of the vehicle, the connecting device being employed in maneuvering the vehicle along the guide way.   
     
     
         19 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  wherein the connecting device is in the form of a saddle. 
     
     
         20 . The vehicle as described in  claim 19  further comprising a device for raising the saddle up or down to engage the guide way. 
     
     
         21 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  further comprising a first steering mechanism, the first steering mechanism including associated gears and motors to effect first steering movements in the vehicle. 
     
     
         22 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  further comprising a second steering mechanism, the second steering mechanism including associated gears and motors to effect second steering movements. 
     
     
         23 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  wherein the central beam is placed at a specified distance above a roadway surface, and wherein the central beam will line up with all other similar vehicles. 
     
     
         24 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  further comprising a curved plastic bumper nose at a front of the central beam and a curved plastic bumper nose at a rear of the central beam. 
     
     
         25 . The vehicle as described in  claim 19  further comprising a saddle sensor, whereby the saddle is adapted to removably engage a guide way and wherein the saddle sensor detects the guide way to maneuver the vehicle. 
     
     
         26 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  further comprising a collapsible bumper area for storing a series of airbags such that the harder an impact the greater will be a pressure on the series of air bags as they deploy. 
     
     
         27 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  further comprising a single continuous structural frame around an entire perimeter of the vehicle. 
     
     
         28 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  wherein the vehicle further includes axles that do not rotate. 
     
     
         29 . The vehicle as described in  claim 18  wherein each wheel includes an associated in-wheel electric motor that rotates around a non-rotating or fixed axle. 
     
     
         30 . The vehicle as described in  claim 29  further comprising a rotating pin assembly that allows each in-wheel motor on a steering axle of the vehicle to rotate left or right in a horizontal plane and that allows the vehicle to be steered.