A pedal with anti-collision detection is installed on the rear of a vehicle. The pedal includes a pedal body and a radar device, with an insertion portion extending from the rear lateral side of the pedal body. Arc ribs are arranged from a rear lateral side of the pedal body toward a front lateral side of the pedal body at intervals, and straight ribs extend from the rear lateral side toward the front lateral side in a radial arrangement. The arc ribs and the straight ribs are interlaced, forming reinforcement spaces therebetween. An installation space is formed on an inner side of the front lateral side toward the rear lateral side for receiving the radar device. Each reinforcement space contains a reinforcement structure, thereby strengthening the structural strength of the pedal for protecting the radar device.

A movement assistance device includes a blind spot object acquiring unit to acquire blind spot object information indicating a position or a type of each of one or more objects present in a blind spot area of a mobile object sensor provided on a mobile object; a contact object specifying unit to specify an object with which the mobile object might come into contact when the mobile object moves out of the one or more objects present in the blind spot area on the basis of the blind spot object information; and a movement assistance information acquiring unit to input the blind spot object information corresponding to the object specified by the contact object specifying unit to a learned model and acquires movement assistance information, which is information output by the learned model as an inference result, the information for avoiding contact of the mobile object with the object.

A device includes a target information acquisition sensor configured to detect a target present in a region rearward of a host vehicle, and acquire information about the target as target information; and an electronic control unit configured to, while the host vehicle is stopped, calculate, based on the target information, a predicted time required for the target to come into contact with or close proximity to the host vehicle, and execute drop-off assist control for assisting drop-off of an occupant of the host vehicle when the predicted time is equal to or smaller than a predetermined time threshold, set the time threshold to a predetermined first time threshold when a speed of the target is equal to or lower than a predetermined first speed, and set the time threshold to a value smaller than the first time threshold when the speed of the target is higher than the first speed.

An electronic device includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave; a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected; a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave; and a gain adjustment unit that adjusts a gain of the reception signal. The control unit performs control to transmit the transmission wave in at least two different modes. The gain adjustment unit adjusts the gain of the reception signal for each of the modes.

A vehicle control system may include a controller that detects an object outside a vehicle, calculates an angle based on a ratio of a relative speed between the object and the vehicle to a speed of the vehicle, and updates a phase curve reflecting a phase distortion of an input signal based on the calculated angle.

A method for radar-based monitoring of a rearward area of a truck. The truck comprises a radar device and at least one semitrailer. The method comprises the steps of ascertaining various objects and their position using the radar device, determining an alignment of the trailer relative to the radar device, determining the objects that, based on their position, are concealed for the radar device as a result of the alignment of the semitrailer, and ascertaining, on the basis of the alignment of the semitrailer and an ascertained reflection of the radar waves on the semitrailer, the true position of the objects ascertained as concealed.

Disclosed is a control assistance device that includes a radar system that detects surrounding objects, and generates radar tracking information tracking a position of the surrounding object relative to a vehicle, and a camera system, that includes cameras, and generates image information, and camera tracking information tracking the position of the surrounding object. The control assistance device also includes processors that determine whether the radar tracking information is generated in real time when the surrounding object approaches within a preset distance from the vehicle based on generated tracking information that includes the radar tracking information or the camera tracking information, determine whether the camera tracking information is generated in real time, when the radar tracking information is determined as generated in real time, and control a braking system of the vehicle based on the generated tracking information, when the camera tracking information is determined as generated in real time.

Image recording device provided with a fixed part for at least partial inclusion in and/or on the body of a motor vehicle, and a movable part which comprises at least one optical element, the optical element comprising at least one optical sensor and/or a lens unit, and an adjustment device provided with a power source, for adjusting the movable part between a first position and a second position, wherein during use in the first position the movable part is wholly or partly included in the body, and in the second position the movable part extends at an angle with respect to the body, such that at least the optical element carried by the movable part extends at least partly outside the body, wherein the movable part pivots from the second position about a, preferably substantially vertical, axis to the first position and vice versa.

The present disclosure relates to a motor vehicle including at least one optical surroundings sensor which has a detection range in a detection direction. The motor vehicle further includes a deflection arrangement for the surroundings sensor. The deflection arrangement includes an optical arrangement configured to deflect the detection direction and the entire detection range, and an adjustment device configured to move the optical arrangement into and out of the detection range of the surroundings sensor.

Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to automatically determining the size of a trailer being towed by a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to determining that a trailer is aligned with a towing vehicle, analyzing radar returns from a radar of the towing vehicle to identify radar features within an area behind the towing vehicle. The method includes determining a trailer size of the trailer from the radar features. The method includes adjusting operation of the towing vehicle according to the trailer size.