An in-vehicle device is mounted on a vehicle capable of automated driving, and comprises an incident detection processing unit which acquires vehicle information representing a control state of the vehicle, and detects an incident that occurred in the vehicle based on the vehicle information.

An approach is provided for reconstructing a road linear feature. The approach, for example, involves receiving two or more linear feature detections that respectively represent a linear feature of a road as a line segment delimited by two feature points. The approach also involves map matching the two or more linear feature detections to a road link segment of a geographic database. The approach further involves determining an orientation difference for each of the two or more linear feature detections based on an angle difference between each linear feature detection and a link orientation of the map matched road link segment. The approach further involves determining a feature orientation of the linear feature based on an aggregation of the orientation difference for each linear feature detection. The approach further involves constructing a representation of the linear feature based at least in part on the feature orientation.

A driving control method comprises: acquiring a destination of a vehicle; referring to a first map that includes identification information of a travel lane and a second map that does not include the identification information of the travel lane; calculating a route from a current position of the vehicle to the destination; when traveling along a first route included in the route and belonging to the first map, setting first driving control, while when traveling along a second route included in the route and belonging to the second map, setting second driving control with a lower level of autonomous driving than that of the first driving control; and creating a driving plan for the vehicle to travel along the route with contents of the set driving control. A driving control apparatus is based on the method.

A computing system can receive sensor log data from one or more first autonomous vehicles (AVs) operating along one or more routes. The system can analyze the sensor log data to identify a road anomaly along the one or more routes, and generate an updated localization map comprising a label that indicates the road anomaly. The system may then transmit the updated localization map to one or more second AVs to enable the one or more second AVs to respond to the road anomaly.

A server device capable of creating data for reflecting traveling conditions that change over time in driver assistance function, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a storage medium are provided. It includes a server communication unit configured to acquire, from a mobile object communication unit arranged at one mobile object of a plurality of mobile objects, information to be processed in which position information of the one mobile object is associated with information indicating a driver assistance function being used by the one mobile object, and a processing unit configured to execute statistical processing with respect to the information to be processed acquired by the server communication unit and embed, into the map data, statistical information indicating whether the driver assistance function should be performed or not in a position or area in a map indicated by the map data.

An apparatus for updating a map includes a communication interface configured to receive pieces of reliability information indicating degrees of reliability from a vehicle, the degrees of reliability each indicating how likely a feature at a first location is represented in an image obtained by a camera mounted on the vehicle; and a processor configured to determine that the feature at the first location is removed, when a ratio of the number of pieces of reliability information indicating the degrees of reliability less than a second threshold to the total number of received pieces of reliability information is not less than a predetermined ratio threshold, the second threshold being less than a first threshold for determining that the feature is detected, and update a map so as to delete information on the feature at the first location from the map when it is determined that the feature is removed.

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine map information defining a map, wherein the map comprises a plurality of regions. A quality level is assigned to each region of the plurality of regions based on map information available for that region. The quality level is associated with at least one of: a resolution metric, a volume metric, a recency metric, a verification metric, or an elegance metric associated with the map information available for that region. A first region of the plurality of regions is identified that is at risk of being downgraded to a lower quality level. Instructions are issued to one or more vehicles that cause the one or more vehicles to traverse the first region and capture sensor data within the first region.

A safety system characterized in that centralized information indicative of safe vehicle performance expectations along a roadway in consideration of the predicted weather is transmitted to a given vehicle and wherein said given vehicle may have an on-board safety unit for adjusting the vehicle operation to reflect deviations in the performance of the given vehicle relative to said safe vehicle performance expectations.

The present disclosure provides a method comprising identifying at least one of a characteristic and an identity of an item for delivery from an origin to a destination; identifying a plurality of possible routes between the origin and the destination using mapping information, the mapping information including for each of the plurality of possible routes, a characterization of each of a plurality of route segments comprising the possible route; evaluating the plurality of possible routes in view of the identified at least one of the item characteristic and the item identity to select one of the plurality of possible routes; and providing the selected one of the plurality of possible routes to a vehicle, wherein the vehicle delivers the item from the origin to the destination via the identified route.

Provided herein are systems and methods for updating a map. Map data associated with a topology and sensor data corresponding to linear features on the topology are obtained and a key linear feature is identified in the linear features. The method further comprises generating an extension of the key linear feature and identifying a next link segment corresponding to a current link segment of the key linear feature. At least one intersection location between the extended key linear feature and a perpendicular from at least one of (i.) the current link segment or (ii.) the next link segment is determined. A new linear feature location is generated based on the current link segment, the at least one intersection location, and the map data. The map is updated based on the new linear feature location.