A control device for a vehicle includes: a signal information acquisition unit that acquires signal information about at least one traffic light, from a server having signal information about a plurality of traffic lights provided at a plurality of intersections; and a vehicle control unit that controls the vehicle, based on the signal information acquired by the signal information acquisition unit.

A parking guidance system and a method for allocating a parking space for a vehicle and for navigating the vehicle to the parking space are provided. The system has a detection unit for detecting an occupancy state of a parking space and/or a parking area containing a plurality of parking spaces, at least one mobile terminal with which a request from at least one vehicle driver for a parking space for his vehicle to reach a destination can be transmitted to the parking guidance system, which request comprises instantaneous position data of the vehicle. The parking guidance system is designed to select an available parking space in accordance with the request and to transmit a selection suggestion for a parking space to the mobile terminal and comprises a navigation system designed to determine a route from the location of the vehicle at the time of the parking space request to the available parking space. The parking guidance system is designed to select parking spaces in a manner that is fed back to the route guidance.

A driving assist device includes an input information determination unit configured to determine driving assist information on the basis of first vehicle information including positional information and operational information about a target vehicle, second vehicle information including positional information and operational information about each of nearby vehicles, and a running route for the target vehicle. The input information determination unit selects any of the nearby vehicles that is located at a position at which a video to be used for driving assist can be recorded, and determines the video acquired from the selected nearby vehicle as the driving assist information. Consequently, driving assist flexibly adapted to, for example, the running route for and the operational information about the target vehicle can be performed.

One variation of a method for accessing supplemental data from other vehicles includes, at an autonomous vehicle: recording a scan image of a scene around the autonomous vehicle at a first time; detecting insufficient perception data in a region of the scan image; in response to detecting insufficient perception data in the region, defining a ground area of interest containing the region and wirelessly broadcasting a query for perception data representing objects within the ground area of interest; in response to receiving supplemental perception data—representing objects within the ground area of interest detected by the second vehicle at approximately the first time—from a second vehicle proximal the scene, incorporating the supplemental perception data into the scan image to form a composite scan image; selecting a navigational action based on objects in the scene represented by the composite scan image; and autonomously executing the navigational action.

A computer-implemented method and system for usage-controlled service delivery to an onboard system of a vehicle are designed for delivering updatable services to the onboard system of the vehicle by way of a vehicle-external server according to data of the service usage behavior of a vehicle user of the updatable services.

Provided is a drive assistance device preventing an unrecommended lane when a vehicle travels, enabling appropriate provision of driving assistance. Specifically, candidates for a way of moving into a selectable lane when the vehicle moves along a planned travel route are identified and obtained by using map information. Then, for a candidate that involves a lane change among the obtained candidates for a way of moving into a lane, a lane change start location at which a lane change starts and a lane change end location at which the lane change ends are set at a location close to a destination on a priority basis, and manner of moving into a lane for the vehicle that is recommended when the vehicle moves is selected from among the candidates for a way of moving into a lane, taking into account the set lane change start location and lane change end location.

Systems and methods are provided for finding an available pickup/drop-off zone (PDZ) for an autonomous vehicle (AV) to use to pick up a passenger. A PDZ is selected that is likely to be available and that is within a reasonable walking distance of a passenger. The AV and the passenger are guided to the available PDZ. In selecting the available PDZ, the system balances the human and vehicle routing by taking into account the distance possible PDZs are from the passenger, the likelihood the respective PDZs will be available, the passenger's desire/ability to walk to the respective PDZs (e.g., due to physical limitations, weather, etc.), the driving time of the AV to the respective PDZs, the walking time of the passenger to the respective PDZs, and the like.

Disclosed are high-precision-map data collection methods, devices and storage mediums, which relate to the field of computer technologies, and particularly to the fields of big data technologies, autonomous driving technologies, intelligent transportation technologies, or the like. The data collection method includes: receiving a collection task generated by a server, where the collection task includes to-be-collected track points; generating a navigation path based on the to-be-collected track points, and displaying the navigation path; and acquiring map data collected at the to-be-collected track points when a vehicle travels based on the navigation path.

A method includes receiving vehicle data for a plurality of vehicles in a parking facility over time, the vehicle data including a time t1 indicating when each of the vehicles leaves its corresponding parking spot in the parking facility, and a time t2 indicating when each of the plurality of vehicles reaches an exit of the parking facility. An egress time is determined for each of the plurality of vehicles based at least in part on the corresponding times t1 and t2. A timestamp is assigned to each of the egress times, resulting in timestamped egress times. A current egress time of the parking facility is estimated based at least in part on the timestamped egress times. An action recommendation is based at least in part on the current egress time of the parking facility and is outputted for subsequent viewing by the driver of the particular vehicle.

This document describes methods by which a system determines a pickup/drop-off zone (PDZ) to which a vehicle will navigate to perform a ride service request. The system will define a PDZ that is a geometric interval that is within a lane of a road at the requested destination of the ride service request by: (i) accessing map data that includes the geometric interval; (ii) using the vehicle's length and the road's speed limit at the destination to calculate a minimum allowable length for the PDZ; (iii) setting, start point and end point boundaries for the PDZ having an intervening distance that is equal to or greater than the minimum allowable length; and (iv) positioning the PDZ in the lane at or within a threshold distance from the requested destination. The system will then generate a path to guide the vehicle to the PDZ.