An information provision device includes a controller configured to detect installation of an anti-skid tool onto a vehicle from an image including at least a part of the vehicle and at least a part of the vicinity of the vehicle and a communication unit configured to provide position information of the vehicle at the time of the installation of the anti-skid tool detected by the controller. A driving assistance device includes a communication unit configured to acquire position information of a vehicle at the time of installation of an anti-skid tool when the installation of the anti-skid tool onto the vehicle is detected from an image including at least a part of the vehicle and at least a part of a vicinity of the vehicle, and a controller configured to present information acquired by the communication unit to the driver of another vehicle different from the vehicle.

Systems and methods are provided for updating vehicle navigation guidance systems. The methods may comprise receiving an audible emergency broadcast, and scanning the audible emergency broadcast for a plurality of predetermined key terms. Upon detecting a presence of at least one of the plurality of predetermined key terms, the method may include analyzing an additional portion of the audible emergency broadcast for vehicular traffic information. The method includes determining at least one incident location to have a potential of being affected by the vehicular traffic information. The method may include providing an update, alert, or information related to the vehicular traffic information to at least one vehicle within a certain distance to the incident location, or to at least one vehicle currently routed through the incident location.

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for operating a first device. The first device obtains environment information in proximity to the first device and receives one or more communication messages from a second device and the message(s) includes relevance criteria, wherein the relevance criteria indicates one or more devices, one or more sets of device characteristics, one or more lanes, one or more intersections or areas, one or more pedestrian paths or bicycle paths, one or more signal characteristics from the second device or any combination thereof. The first device determines whether the one or more communication messages are relevant to the first device based on the relevance criteria and the environment information and performs an operation in response to the determination of whether the one or more communication messages are relevant.

A method for autonomously or semi-autonomously carrying out a cooperative driving maneuver and a vehicle. Provision is made for a maneuvering vehicle which plans the execution of a driving maneuver to determine a maneuvering area of a road in which the driving maneuver is potentially executed, to communicate with one or more vehicles via vehicle-to-vehicle communication to detect one or more cooperation vehicles which will presumably be inside the maneuvering area during the execution of the driving maneuver, and to adapt its own driving behavior to the presumable driving behavior of the one or more cooperation vehicles to execute the planned driving maneuver. The disclosure provides a possibility which, by vehicle-to-vehicle communication, allows vehicles for jointly carrying out a cooperative driving maneuver to be identified and then allows the cooperative driving maneuver to be executed.

Warning guidance systems, methods, and programs communicate with a vehicle navigation system to provide guidance on a warning event that may occur on the vehicle. The systems, methods, and programs acquire warning event information indicating the warning event and an event vehicle on which the warning event has occurred. The systems methods and programs transmit the guidance to the vehicle traveling in a predetermined section in a case in which the warning event that has occurred a plurality of times in the predetermined section has occurred on a plurality of event vehicles, but do not transmit the guidance at another vehicle traveling in the predetermined section in a case in which the warning event that has occurred a plurality of times in the predetermined section has occurred on a single event vehicle for all of the plurality of times.

A system for data aggregation and analytical scoring is described that includes a gateway operable to aggregate data received from multiple remote devices, and a device history data model storing properties for each of the multiple remote devices and storing the data received from each remote device. A scoring engine in the system acts to aggregate and analyze the data stored in the device history data model and to produce a metric based on the data. The system also includes a notification policy to conditionally notify a user based on the metric produced by the scoring engine.

A method is provided for encoding traffic incident and flow data using target map locations, such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) locations directly, rather than going through a conversion stage. In exemplary embodiments, the method can include selecting a set of fixed, identifiable locations along a roadbed, matching these to a target map, generating flow vectors in the target map's referencing model, and deliver only target map location data to the external application. Non-point location data such as incidents can also be represented using the same scheme, using an offset along a previously defined path for the start and end points.

An infrastructure-device status-verification system suitable for use by an automated vehicle includes a transceiver, an object-detector, and a controller. The transceiver is suitable to install on a host-vehicle. The transceiver is used to receive an indicated-status of an infrastructure-device. The object-detector is suitable to install on the host-vehicle. The object-detector is used to determine a detected-status of the infrastructure-device. The controller is in communication with the transceiver and the object-detector. The controller determines a confirmed-status of the infrastructure-device based on the indicated-status and the detected-status. The system provides for increased confidence and security regarding information about the status of an infrastructure-device such as the traffic-signal (e.g. red, yellow, and green), thereby avoid miss-information caused by, for example, hacking or spoofing of V2I communications from the infrastructure-device, and overcome instances when the field-of-view between the object-detector and the infrastructure-device 26 becomes occluded after the confirmed-status has been established or determined.

A cooperative-vehicle system suitable to operate an automated vehicle in a courteous or cooperative manner includes an object-detector and a controller. The object-detector is used by the host-vehicle to detect an other-vehicle attempting to enter a travel-lane traveled by the host-vehicle. The controller is in communication with the object-detector. The controller is configured to control motion of the host-vehicle. The controller is also configured to adjust a present-vector of the host-vehicle to allow the other-vehicle to enter the travel-lane. The decision to take some action to allow the other vehicle to enter the travel-lane may be further based on secondary considerations such as how long the other-vehicle has waited, a classification of the other-vehicle (e.g. an ambulance), an assessment of how any action by the host-vehicle would affect nearby vehicles, the intent of the other-vehicle, and/or a measure traffic-density proximate to the host-vehicle.

An electronic device according to various embodiments disclosed in this document may include a first communicator supporting V2X communication, a controller, and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the controller to: receive at least one V2X message through the first communicator; determine whether to capture an image, based on the at least one V2X message; in response to the determination to capture the image, determine a region of interest, based on the at least one V2X message; obtain an image including the determined region of interest, through at least one imaging device electrically connected to the electronic device; identify an object included in the obtained image; match the identified object with the at least one V2X message; and generate an image with which the at least one V2X message matching the identified object is combined. Other various embodiments are possible.