A vehicle management system includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to acquire location information relating to a location of the vehicle, determine if the vehicle has arrived at a destination based on the location information, and provide a signal to switch at least one of a transmission of the vehicle or a braking subsystem of the vehicle from an operational condition to a locked condition in response to at least the vehicle arriving at the destination, thereby preventing undesired operation of the vehicle.

A vehicle control device has a first calculating unit calculating a first arrival time until a vehicle reaches a lane change position where a first lane along which the vehicle is traveling and a second lane merge, or the first lane and the second lane separates, a second calculating unit calculating a second arrival time until another vehicle traveling along the second lane reaches the lane change position, and a speed control unit controlling the speed of the vehicle such that the vehicle enables to make a lane change to the second lane ahead of the other vehicle when the first arrival time is shorter than the second arrival time, and controlling the speed of the vehicle such that the vehicle enables to make a lane change to the second lane behind the other vehicle when the first arrival time is equal to or greater than the second arrival time.

A vehicle monitoring device includes a determination unit that determines whether a following vehicle shown in an image taken by a camera that takes an image of a surrounding area of a host vehicle is a two-wheel vehicle or not, and a warning unit that issues a warning when an inter-vehicle distance between the following vehicle and the host vehicle becomes equal to or less than a first distance in a case where the following vehicle is determined not to be a two-wheel vehicle by the determination unit, and issues a warning when the inter-vehicle distance between the following vehicle and the host vehicle becomes equal to or less than a second distance, which is longer than the first distance, in a case where the following vehicle is determined to be a two-wheel vehicle by the determination unit.

A method includes receiving a first set of images from an image capture device of a vehicle. The method also includes performing a first analysis of movement of biomechanical points of occupants of the vehicle in the first set of images. The method further includes receiving an indication that a traffic incident has occurred. The method also includes receiving a second set of images from the image capture device corresponding to when the traffic incident occurred. The method further includes performing a second analysis of movement of the biomechanical points of the occupants in the second set of images. The method also includes determining a likelihood of injury or a severity of injury to the occupants based on the first analysis of movement and the second analysis of movement.

A vehicular display control apparatus includes: a condition determination portion that determines whether a deviation prediction condition has been established, the deviation prediction condition being a condition based on which a deviation between a sensible speed for a driver and an actual traveling speed is predicted; a speed difference determination portion that determines whether a speed difference between the actual traveling speed and a speed limit is a switching determination value or larger, and whether a shortage of the traveling speed from the speed limit is the switching determination value or larger; and a switching control portion that switches a speed display indicating the traveling speed to an emphasized display in a case when the condition determination portion determines that the deviation prediction condition has been established, and also when the speed difference determination portion determines that the speed difference is the switching determination value or larger.

Methods and systems for determining risk associated with operation of autonomous vehicles using autonomous communication are provided. According to certain aspects, autonomous operation features associated with a vehicle may be determined, including features associated with autonomous communication between vehicles or with infrastructure. This information may be used to determine risk levels for a plurality of features, which may be based upon test data regarding the features or actual loss data. Expected use levels and autonomous communication levels may further be determined and used with the risk levels to determine a total risk level associated with operation of the vehicle. The autonomous communication levels may indicate the types of communications, the levels of communication with other vehicles or infrastructure, or the frequency of autonomous communication. The total risk level may be used to determine or adjust aspects of an insurance policy associated with the vehicle.

Methods and systems for determining risk associated with operation of autonomous vehicles using autonomous communication are provided. According to certain aspects, autonomous operation features associated with a vehicle may be determined, including features associated with autonomous communication between vehicles or with infrastructure. This information may be used to determine risk levels for a plurality of features, which may be based upon test data regarding the features or actual loss data. Expected use levels and autonomous communication levels may further be determined and used with the risk levels to determine a total risk level associated with operation of the vehicle. The autonomous communication levels may indicate the types of communications, the levels of communication with other vehicles or infrastructure, or the frequency of autonomous communication. The total risk level may be used to determine or adjust aspects of an insurance policy associated with the vehicle.

An occupant protection device which can protect an occupant without delay is provided. An image taken by an imaging device is analyzed to judge whether there is an object approaching the subject car. In the case where a collision between the object and the subject car is judged to be inevitable, an airbag device is activated before the collision, whereby the occupant can be protected without delay. By using selenium for a light-receiving element of the imaging device, an accurate image can be obtained even under low illuminance. Imaging in a global shutter system leads to an accurate image with little distortion. This enables more accurate image analysis.

To issue an appropriate warning based on detection of an object even under the circumstances where it is difficult to determine the outside environment of a movable body, a warning device according to the present invention includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images respectively based on a plurality of filter characteristics, a detection unit configured to perform detection of a specified object on each of the plurality of acquired images, and a warning unit configured to issue a specific warning when the object is detected from at least any one of the plurality of acquired images, wherein the warning unit issues a higher level of warning when the object is detected from all of the plurality of images than when the object is detected from some of the plurality of images.

A vehicle is configured to transport a passenger through autonomous travel. The vehicle includes an in-vehicle camera configured to image the passenger to generate an image, a camera controller configured to control the in-vehicle camera, and a passenger information detection unit configured to detect information about the passenger. The passenger information detection unit measures the number of passengers and the camera controller stops an operation of the in-vehicle camera in a case where the number of passengers is one.