A method for operating a vehicle hazardous parking warning system for warning a user of a first vehicle about hazardous parking of the first vehicle. The method includes detecting that the first vehicle enters a parking state at a parking position along the roadside; determining whether the parking position of the first vehicle is hazardous in terms of risk that the parked first vehicle being hit by a second, rear-coming, vehicle by retrieving stored forwards visibility information that was registered by a forwards directed sensor unit of the first vehicle while travelling of the first vehicle before entering the parking state; calculating a level of a risk parameter reflecting a risk for the parked first vehicle being hit by the second vehicle, based on the forwards visibility information; and determining that the parking position is a hazardous parking position when the risk parameter exceeds a threshold value.

The invention relates to a technology for transversely and longitudinally guiding reversing of a commercial vehicle (100)during controlled parking and/or manoeuvring of the commercial vehicle (100) as a following vehicle in accordance with a leading vehicle (200) in the surroundings of the commercial vehicle (100). The commercial vehicle (100) comprises at least one sensor (102)and/or at least one data interface (104) for sensing data of the surroundings of the commercial vehicle (100), the sensed surroundings containing the commercial vehicle (100) and/or the leading vehicle (200). Alternatively or in addition, the commercial vehicle(100)comprises at least one data interface (104)for sensing a control instruction for transverse and longitudinal guidance from the leading vehicle (200)in the surroundings of the commercial vehicle (100). The commercial vehicle (100) also comprises a control unit (108)which is designed to control the transverse and longitudinal guidance of the reversing of the commercial vehicle (100) during controlled parking and/or manoeuvring of the commercial vehicle (100) depending on the sensed data ofthe surroundings and/or the sensed control instruction.

A method includes determining that an autonomous vehicle is in a zone associated with one or more zone rules; causing, in response to determining that the autonomous vehicle is in the zone, the autonomous vehicle to operate in a controlled mode of operation associated with the zone rules; determining that the autonomous vehicle has exited the zone; and releasing, in response to determining that the autonomous vehicle has exited the zone, the autonomous vehicle from the controlled mode of operation.

A parking assistance device includes: a situation information acquisition unit acquiring, when a vehicle is repeatedly parked at a parking target position, peripheral situation information; a storage control unit storing first situation information indicating the peripheral situation information and a movement route for the parking target position; an information updating unit updating, when new information is included in second situation information acquired when newly parking at the parking target position and a region specified by the new information does not interfere with a region where the movement route exists, the first situation information by the second situation information; a current position estimation unit estimating a current position by comparing the first and second situation information; and a guidance control unit guiding the vehicle to the parking target position according to the estimated current position and the movement route.

A method executed by an information processing device includes acquiring a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle and executing traffic assistance processing based on the score at the time when the vehicle is parked. An information processing device comprises a controller that acquires a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle, and executes traffic assistance processing based on the score, at a time when the vehicle is parked. A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions that are executable by one or more processors and causes the one or more processors to acquire a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle, and execute traffic assistance processing based on the score, at a time when the vehicle is parked.

A parking lot management device configured to manage traveling of vehicles by setting a scheduled passage time for each node indicating a travel route in a parking lot includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an actual passage time at which a first vehicle has actually passed a first node; a determination unit configured to determine a collision risk between a second vehicle and the first vehicle based on the actual passage time, the second vehicle being scheduled to pass, following the first vehicle, a second node that is located forward of the first node in a traveling direction of the first vehicle; and a setting unit configured to delay a first scheduled passage time at which the second vehicle passes the second node to cause the second vehicle to pass the second node following the first vehicle when it is determined that there is the collision risk.

A device for communication between a parked vehicle bounding a parking space and a vehicle to be parked includes a transceiver configured to transmit at least one vehicle-specific minimum distance from the parked vehicle to the vehicle to be parked.

A parking assistance device includes a parking direction specification unit specifying a parking direction in a case where a subject vehicle is parked at a parking region, an obstacle detection unit detecting an obstacle, a detection range setting unit setting a detection range for detecting a bearing of the obstacle, a division unit dividing the detection range in a direction associated with the specified parking direction and generating plural divided ranges, a bearing calculation unit calculating a bearing of the detected obstacle, which is a bearing of a side surface of the obstacle which extends in the parking direction, for each of the divided ranges and calculating an average value of the bearings which are respectively calculated for the divided ranges, and a parking position setting unit setting a parking position where the subject vehicle is parked at the parking region based on the calculated average value.

A vehicular camera monitoring system a driver-side camera, a driver-side video display screen disposed at a driver-side cabin region of an interior cabin of the vehicle, a passenger-side camera and a passenger-side video display screen disposed at a passenger-side cabin region of the interior cabin of the vehicle. Upon completion of a parking maneuver of the vehicle, and until a period of time elapses following powering down of the vehicle upon completion of the parking maneuver of the vehicle, the driver-side video display screen displays driver-side video images of a driver-side region sideward of the driver side of the vehicle and rearward of the vehicle and the passenger-side video display screen displays passenger-side video images of a passenger-side region sideward of the passenger side of the vehicle and rearward of the vehicle.

A method of providing a visualization (152) of one or more areas obscured by a trailer (200) attached to a vehicle (100) is provided. The method includes receiving first image data (133, 133a) from a first camera (132) positioned on a front portion of the vehicle (100) when the vehicle and the trailer are moving in a forward direction or a rear portion of the trailer when the vehicle and the trailer are moving in a rearward direction. The method also includes storing the received first image data. The method includes receiving speed data (135) of the vehicle from a speed sensor (134). The method also includes determining a visualization (152) of an area (Area 2) underneath the trailer (200) based on the stored first image data (133, 133a) and the speed data (135), and sending instructions to a display (122) to display the visualization of the area underneath the trailer.