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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 28 2019, @10:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the looping-circuits dept.

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Tesla's latest wiring patent application: Things get faster and more redundant - Roadshow

Having an electronic component on your car break is generally pretty damned annoying. Not only do you have a nonfunctioning feature on your vehicle, but you have to either spend way too much time diagnosing the problem yourself or paying someone else to do it.

That problem becomes more severe if your car is driving itself and something happens to, say, one of its sensors. Current automotive wiring architectures don't really have provisions for redundancy, and the way that most manufacturers construct their wiring harnesses is pretty complicated.

Tesla thinks it's found a new way to do things with more redundancy without dramatically increasing complexity and has filed a patent application to prove it. What's even cooler is that Tesla's system would also boost the speed at which data is transferred throughout the vehicle, in theory at least, according to a report published Monday by Electrek.

[...] This isn't the first wiring architecture patent application that we've seen from the Big T recently. It filed an application earlier this year for a more modular wiring system that would simplify vehicle construction by using more modular subharnesses -- for example a wiring harness for all the components of a door with one connector going to the main body harness, rather than a bunch of discrete connectors.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:08PM

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday August 28 2019, @06:08PM (#886913) Journal

    Tesla's patents: All Our Patent Are Belong To You [tesla.com]

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