Patent for Automated Car Self-Destruct System Filed by EV Startup

Imagine if your car understood that it was going to undergo a catastrophic collapse, the type which may cause injury to you and other occupants, or maybe homes or local structures? And before driving itself to meet with its end — what if your automobile used that data to alert you to evacuate? If that sounds like science fiction, so far as we are aware of it still is, but electric-car startup NIO is certainly thinking about this type of subject, according to a patent it filed back in 2017 to get a “Self-destruct zone and autonomous vehicle navigation” protocol.

Now, you’ll see that the patent filed by NIO, which again then went by the name NextEV, isn’t to get a self-destruct system. That’s because, per NIO’s filing with the United States Patent Office, the term is used to describe an electric car’s impending, self-catalyzed catastrophic loss. Think of thermal runaway in the battery (such as exactly that which a restricted number of Teslas and other EVs have suffered in recent years), or even a enormous power fault, rather than a person pressing a big red button that initiates an ominous countdown and, finally, a dramatic explosion.

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