ARI'S AUTONOMOUS SAFETY PATENTS CAN SAVE LIVES - NOW!

ARIhas developed, and is expanding, a strong IP position in autonomous roadway safety.  Currently, we have issued Patents and numerous applications before the USPTO for life-saving harm avoidance.  

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ARI SAFETY SOLUTIONS.  The innovative autonomous roadway safety solutions as disclosed in Autonomous Roadway Intelligence Patents have the practical application that they provide comprehensive best-scenario lifesaving solutions so very much faster - and with so much greater death-avoiding precision - than any human brain can possibly perform.  As a death on roadways occurs every 27 seconds, something better than today’s murderous status-quo insanity must be available – AND THERE NOW IS!!

Here are SOME of the problems related to human error, acknowledged to be the leading cause of traffic fatalities and the cause of many terrible tragedies, often to innocent people:
  

• Alcohol
• drug impairment
• fatigue
• no seat belt
• road rage/anger
• inexperience
• general inattention
• cell-phone usage – generally illegal
• speeding at often very dangerous speeds
• weaving in and out of traffic, often without signaling
• tailgating
• impatience
• etc./etc.

94% OF CRASHES IN THE UNITED STATES ARE CAUSED BY HUMAN ERROR….

These human errors/emotions are eliminated with the ARI safety solutions, as our ARI patents provide not only practical and instantaneous solutions which far exceed the capability of the human brain, but have the huge advantage that they are nonemotional – as they do not suffer from inattention/fatigue/road rage and all the other fatal consequences of human error. 

The practical application of the instantaneous life-saving autonomous processes and systems of the ARI patents will most certainly save lives compared to the slower, haphazard – and sometimes even fatal – decisions of human beings!

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The inexcusably tragic fatality pandemic occurring second-by-second on roadways throughout the world must end!

Autonomous Roadway Intelligence
Autonomous Safety Patents Issued and Pending.

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• US PATENT 9,896,096
  Systems and Methods for Hazard Mitigation - February 20, 2018
  Most collision-avoidance systems simply slam on the brakes and hope. That is seldom the best solution. In this Patent, we disclose a method for avoiding a collision if avoidable, and minimizing the harm if unavoidable. Unlike prior art, the amount of expected harm is calculated according to objective criteria.
  Result: SAVING LIVES ON THE HIGHWAY.
  
  
• US PATENT 9,701,307
  Systems and Methods for Hazard Mitigation - July 11, 2017
  Each year thousands upon thousands of people die on US highways - needlessly. This Patent discloses procedures and a formula for mitigating imminent collisions. Detect the imminent collision, determine if it is avoidable, and execute a calculated evasive action. If not avoidable, select a different action to minimize the harm. The processor explores a huge number of alternative solutions and selects the best one for the desired outcome in each case.
  Result: FEWER COLLISIONS.
  
  
• US PATENT 10,059,335
  Systems and Methods for Hazard Mitigation - August 28, 2018
  Unlike prior-art systems, this Patent discloses ways to actively manage an unavoidable collision. By following a pre-planned strategy, each vehicle can shed excess kinetic energy, carefully place the point of impact away from passengers, and then swerve if necessary to avoid a spin-out. The system also plans ahead to avoid post-collision hazards such as secondary collisions.
  Result: EVERYONE WALKS AWAY.
  
  
• US PATENT 10,507,829
  Systems and Methods for Hazard Mitigation - December 17, 2019
  This Patent discloses a learning-based collision-mitigation system, adaptable to the driver's own preferences and driving style. In an emergency, the processor compares previously-successful avoidance strategies in the current traffic scenario, and then quickly puts the most beneficial strategy into action. The method is applicable to autonomous vehicles, semi-autonomous, and human-driven with an emergency-intervention capability.
  Result: BETTER COLLISION AVOIDANCE THAN HUMANLY POSSIBLE.
  
  
• US PATENT 12,311,923
  Systems and Methods for Hazard Mitigation - May 27, 2025
  Traffic collisions can be avoided by adapting an avoidance strategy to the projected future positions and velocities of the other vehicles involved. This Patent shows how to update the strategy as the sensor data changes.
  Result: REDUCED COLLISION HAZARD IN TRAFFIC.
  
  
• US PATENT 11,807,230
  AI-Based Vehicle Collision Avoidance and Harm Minimization - November 7, 2023
  When a collision is imminent, an AI model is needed to analyze sensor data and devise an evasion strategy fast enough to be of use at highway speeds. The AI model can be trained to avoid the collision if possible, and to minimize the harm if unavoidable.
  Result: SERIOUS COLLISIONS ARE AVOIDED OR HARM MINIMIZED.
  
  
• US PATENT 11,951,979
  Rapid, Automatic, AI-Based Collision Avoidance and Mitigation - April 9, 2024
  Many traffic collisions could be avoided, or greatly reduced, by rapid well-managed steering, braking, or acceleration. Disclosed are systems and methods in which an AI system analyzes sensor data and plots a best course to avoid the collision if possible, and minimize the harm if not.
  Result: FEWER DEATHS AND SERIOUS INJURIES.
  
  
• US PATENT 12,103,522
  Operating a Vehicle According to an Artificial Intelligence Model - October 1, 2024
  Vehicles can be operated by an AI model to detect an imminent collision, and to select a sequence of accelerations, braking, and steering to avoid the collision if avoidable, and to minimize the harm if unavoidable.
  Result: HARM MINIMIZED - SAVING LIVES.
  
  
• US PATENT 12,084,049
  Actions to Avoid or Reduce the Harm of an Imminent Collision - September 10, 2024
  When a vehicle collision is considered avoidable, the vehicle may automatically apply steering to avoid the potential collision. When the collision is considered unavoidable, the vehicle may apply brakes to reduce the speed and therefore reduce the severity of the impact to minimize harm.
  Result: SAVED LIVES.
  
  
• US PATENT 12,233,860
  Collision Avoidance and Minimization Using an AI Model - February 25, 2025
  With proper training, an AI model can rapidly and effectively select a series of braking, steering, or accelerating actions to avoid a collision, or at least to minimize the harm or intensity of the collision.
  Result: FEWER COLLISIONS, WITH LESS SEVERITY – HARM MINIMIZATION.
  
  
• US PATENT 12,122,372
  Collision Avoidance/Mitigation by Machine Learning and Automatic Intervention - October 22, 2024
  A subject vehicle in traffic can use machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect an imminent collision with a second vehicle or other object. The AI algorithm can select a sequence of actions (braking, swerving, or accelerating - depending on the kinetics) to avoid the collision if possible, and to reduce or minimize the harm if unavoidable.
  Result: LIVES WILL BE SAVED!
  
  
• US PATENT 12,545,248
  Automatic Collision-Avoidance and/or Harm-Minimization of Vehicle Collisions - February 10, 2026
  A subject vehicle can autonomously select and implement a particular sequence of actions that is calculated to avoid an imminent collision or to minimize the harm of the imminent collision.
  Result: IMPROVED TRAFFIC SAFETY.
  
  
• US PUBLICATION 2025/0276684
  Systems for Mitigating a Collision Faster Than a Human Driver of Ordinary Skill - September 4, 2025
  An autonomous collision mitigation system can integrate multiple sensors, determine whether an imminent collision is avoidable, and select a collision-avoidance or harm-minimization sequence of actions, all much faster than a human driver of ordinary skill.
  Result: COLLISIONS AVOIDED OR MINIMIZED.
  
  

COLLISION MITIGATION

ARI Patents are focused on autonomous collision mitigation.  This entails systems and methods for determining whether an imminent collision is avoidable, planning a defensive strategy based on the vehicle's maximum braking, steering, and acceleration capabilities, and then carrying out that strategy.  The mission is to avoid a collision if it is avoidable, manage the collision to minimize harm if it is unavoidable, and have the instant ability to know the difference. 

Featuring a constantly updated kinetic model of the surrounding traffic, surprises by anything that happens are eliminated.  Whenever a vehicle looks like a threat, ARI’s Patented strategies extrapolate the model forward in time, exploring a wide range of actions to prevent the collision.  Usually this is sufficient.

The ARI Advanced Collision Mitigation strategies combine lightning-fast collision avoidance with precise harm minimization - autonomously.

LEAST-HARM TRAJECTORY

Unfortunately, a collision is sometimes unavoidable.  In that case, the problem can be recognized early, and the overall harm can be evaluated – including major and minor injuries, and property damage likely from the collision if nothing is done.  Then, in milliseconds with ultra high-speed processors, the likely effect of different courses of action can be tested, such as braking, accelerating, or steering at critical moments, and then the best strategy to minimize harm is then selected.  The system then takes over and precisely guides the vehicle according to the least-harm trajectory.  It continues to control the action all the way through the collision, millisecond by millisecond, doing everything possible to keep people safe. 

A key feature of ARI Patents is a coherent post-collision strategy.  The processors automatically develop a plan for avoiding secondary threats even before the collision occurs.   During and after the collision, the sensors continuously keep a lookout for approaching traffic.  The system drives the vehicle to the side of the road quickly and safely, then stops, at which point control can be turned back over to the driver. It even sends a help-request message with location and injury details.  Because the collision has been properly managed, it is far more likely that everyone walks away.  The cars may be banged up, but serious injuries were minimized.  Implementation of ARI strategies can save lives one more time.

ARI's Patents combine COLLISION AVOIDANCE and HARM MINIMIZATION.

 

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