A drive assist system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, an information acquisition apparatus, a determination apparatus, and a drive assist apparatus. The drive assist apparatus includes one or more processors, and one or more memories coupled to the one or more processors to communicate therewith. The one or more processors appropriately change a warning timing or a drive assist control intervention timing in accordance with the sleep state of a driver of a vehicle at least from a previous day, upon receiving information, from the determination apparatus, that the vehicle transitions from a stopped state to a traveling state. The warning timing is a timing of giving a warning that the vehicle is approaching another vehicle, or the like. The drive assist control intervention timing is a timing of intervention by the drive assist control for avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle or the like.

A driving support device for a vehicle includes a vehicle-exterior environment recognizer, an erroneous-start suppression controller, and an erroneous-start-suppression-control canceler. The vehicle-exterior environment recognizer is configured to recognize exterior environment of the vehicle. The erroneous-start suppression controller is configured to execute, when an obstacle is present within a set distance in an axial direction of the vehicle and an accelerator operation for starting of the vehicle to move toward the obstacle is performed, erroneous-start suppression control that prevents the start of the vehicle. The erroneous-start-suppression-control canceler is configured to cancel the erroneous-start suppression control when a steering operation that is to enable avoidance of the obstacle is input and the accelerator operation is continuously performed at a set degree of opening of an accelerator or greater for a set time period during the erroneous-start suppression control.

Aspects of the present disclosure generally pertain to a vehicle inhibitor with an enhanced user interface and a system and method for overriding a vehicle inhibitor. This disclosure may be useful for providing an emergency override function for vehicle loan repayment enforcement systems that have wireless user interface modules, and that have become lost or inoperable when needed to generate an emergency override signal. Further, the present disclosure addresses this problem while mitigating additional system cost and additional components. This disclosure includes a method of providing an emergency override function for vehicle loan repayment enforcement systems that have wireless user interface modules, and that have become lost or inoperable when needed to generate an emergency override signal. Further this disclosure includes a method of providing a disablement override function for vehicle loan repayment enforcement systems, wired or wireless, that allows vehicle operation past the grace period in those locations where complete disablement may be limited.

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for notifying drivers to assume manual vehicle control of vehicles. For example, sensor data is acquired from on-board vehicles sensors (e.g., radar, sonar, and/or camera imagery of a crosswalk) of a vehicle that is in an autonomous driving mode. In an example, the sensor data is augmented with driving condition data aggregated from vehicle sensor data of other vehicles (e.g., a cloud service collects and aggregates vehicle sensor data from vehicles within the crosswalk to identify and provide the driving condition data to the vehicle). The sensor data (e.g., augmented sensor data) is evaluated to identify a driving condition of a road segment, such as the crosswalk (e.g., pedestrians protesting within the crosswalk). Responsive to the driving condition exceeding a complexity threshold for autonomous driving decision making functionality, a driver alert to assume manual vehicle control may be provided to a driver.

A driver assistance system has an emergency stop function for a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has an electric parking brake. A parking-brake operating element is used to activate the electric parking brake. The driver assistance system is designed to activate an emergency stop function in accordance with the actuation of the parking-brake operating element and, as part of the emergency stop function, to perform an autonomous emergency stop driving maneuver for the emergency stopping of the vehicle. The driver assistance system is characterized in that the driver assistance system is designed to activate the emergency stop function only in response to an end of the actuation of the parking-brake operating element.

A driver assistance system has an emergency stop function for a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle has an electric parking brake. A parking-brake operating element is used to activate the electric parking brake. The driver assistance system is designed to activate an emergency stop function in accordance with the actuation of the parking-brake operating element and, as part of the emergency stop function, to perform an autonomous emergency stop driving maneuver for the emergency stopping of the vehicle. The driver assistance system is characterized in that the driver assistance system is designed to activate the emergency stop function only in response to an end of the actuation of the parking-brake operating element.

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A device for encapsulating a battery includes an enclosure including a casing and a cover and forming a housing for receiving the battery, a circuit breaker arranged in the enclosure, and an actuating element of the circuit breaker arranged outside the enclosure or partially outside the enclosure.

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for notifying drivers to assume manual vehicle control of vehicles. For example, sensor data is acquired from on-board vehicles sensors (e.g., radar, sonar, and/or camera imagery of a crosswalk) of a vehicle that is in an autonomous driving mode. In an example, the sensor data is augmented with driving condition data aggregated from vehicle sensor data of other vehicles (e.g., a cloud service collects and aggregates vehicle sensor data from vehicles within the crosswalk to identify and provide the driving condition data to the vehicle). The sensor data (e.g., augmented sensor data) is evaluated to identify a driving condition of a road segment, such as the crosswalk (e.g., pedestrians protesting within the crosswalk). Responsive to the driving condition exceeding a complexity threshold for autonomous driving decision making functionality, a driver alert to assume manual vehicle control may be provided to a driver.

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for notifying drivers to assume manual vehicle control of vehicles. For example, sensor data is acquired from on-board vehicles sensors (e.g., radar, sonar, and/or camera imagery of a crosswalk) of a vehicle that is in an autonomous driving mode. In an example, the sensor data is augmented with driving condition data aggregated from vehicle sensor data of other vehicles (e.g., a cloud service collects and aggregates vehicle sensor data from vehicles within the crosswalk to identify and provide the driving condition data to the vehicle). The sensor data (e.g., augmented sensor data) is evaluated to identify a driving condition of a road segment, such as the crosswalk (e.g., pedestrians protesting within the crosswalk). Responsive to the driving condition exceeding a complexity threshold for autonomous driving decision making functionality, a driver alert to assume manual vehicle control may be provided to a driver.