A system for operating an automated-taxi includes an input-device and a controller-circuit. The input-device is operable by a client to indicate a desired-destination of the client. The display is viewable by the client. The controller-circuit is in communication with the input-device and the display. The controller-circuit is configured determine a preferred-route in accordance with the desired-destination and a plurality of other-destinations indicated by a plurality of other-clients of an automated-taxi. The preferred-route includes an alternate-destination for the client. The alternate-destination characterized as within a distance-threshold of the desired-destination of the client. The controller-circuit is further configured to operate the display to request a route-approval from the client for the alternate-destination, and, in response to receiving the route-approval, operate the automated-taxi in accordance with the preferred-route to transport the client to the alternate-destination.

Methods, systems, and techniques for validating road intersections are presented. The method includes receiving annotated intersection data that, for each lane of a particular candidate intersection, indicates one or more attributes of the lane; processing the annotated intersection data to generate an intersection fingerprint for the particular candidate intersection that is sensitive to a topological structure of the lanes of the particular candidate intersection and is invariant to a geometry of the lanes of the particular candidate intersection; designating the particular candidate intersection as validated without performing the one or more quality control processes based at least on the intersection fingerprint; and storing a representation of the particular candidate intersection in the roadgraph.

The preview damping control includes an ECU. When the vehicle is traveling within a communications disruption area in which a radio communication device is hard to communicate with a cloud, the ECU uses road surface displacement correlating information that has been stored in an on-board memory device in advance for the communications disruption area so as to perform a preview damping control.

An intelligent beacon system captures local, authorized changes to vehicle traffic flow plans for response to anomalous road conditions, obstacles, construction, events, and the like, and wirelessly communicates a new traffic flow plan in a variety of forms to vehicles in the vicinity. The variety of forms include human-readable indicia, such as pictorial maps, text, and audible messages, as well as machine-readable indicia, such as digital maps and other representations of the new traffic flow plan. The system includes a configuration device for the entry of traffic flow plans and one or more intelligent beacons for communicating with vehicles. The system may further include one or more base stations in communication with the configuration device and intelligent beacons. System components may be stationary, mobile, self-propelled, or airborne. Beacons may further incorporate conventional traffic warning and direction signaling components, as well as traffic, weather, and other sensors.

A map generating server capable of bidirectional communication with multiple vehicles having a database configured to store vehicle type identifiers assigned to the vehicles and map data regarding roads usable by the vehicles and cultivated land area near the roads. In the server, a vehicle position data tagged with vehicle type identifier is successively written to location concerned of the map data when each vehicle transmits the position data tagged with the vehicle type identifier. The vehicle position data writing number is incremented if the written vehicle position data is that of a vehicle assigned a specified vehicle type identifier, and the location concerned of the cultivated land area is determined to be cultivated land area road and to update the map data stored in the database when the writing number is equal to or greater than a predetermined number.

An object detection apparatus includes an input port that receives information on a plurality of objects in surroundings of a vehicle and information on a traffic environment of the vehicle, the plurality of objects being detected by a sensor installed on the vehicle, a controller that determines, based on the information on the plurality of objects and the information on the traffic environment, priority for each of the plurality of objects and determines first information based on the priority in a case where the total amount of information on the plurality of objects is greater than a determined value, the first information being information on part of the plurality of objects, and an output port that outputs the first information to an in-vehicle apparatus that controls the vehicle.

The purpose of the present invention is to recommend a facility to visit, without requiring installation of special equipment in facilities. A visiting-facility recommending device is provided with: a communication unit that receives the current positions of a plurality of mobile bodies; a storage unit in which road map information and information about a plurality of facilities are saved; a staying-facility estimating unit that estimates a staying facility at which a target mobile body, which is a mobile body chosen as an estimation target, is staying; a movement-correlation calculating unit that calculates movement correlations among the plurality of facilities from past movement histories of the plurality of mobile bodies among the facilities; and a facility recommending unit that selects a facility recommended to be visited next on the basis of the estimated staying facility and the calculated movement correlations among the facilities.

An object detection apparatus includes an input port that receives information on a plurality of objects in surroundings of a vehicle and information on a traffic environment of the vehicle, the plurality of objects being detected by a sensor installed on the vehicle, a controller that determines, based on the information on the plurality of objects and the information on the traffic environment, priority for each of the plurality of objects and determines first information based on the priority in a case where the total amount of information on the plurality of objects is greater than a determined value, the first information being information on part of the plurality of objects, and an output port that outputs the first information to an in-vehicle apparatus that controls the vehicle.

A driver assistance system for a vehicle, including optical recognition means configured to obtain data regarding a regulation indicator in proximity to the vehicle, the data comprising at least a camera-detected regulation value, location providing means configured to provide location information indicating a location of the vehicle and map information related to features in proximity to the location, the features comprising at least one of a map-based regulation value, a conditional indicator, current-link information, and next-link information, and processing means configured to verify and/or augment a display of driver assistance information based on the camera-detected regulation value, the map-based regulation value, current link information, and a presence of the conditional indicator and/or the next-link information.

A search information acquiring unit acquires visual information about a destination. A search condition generating unit generates a search condition by using visual information about the destination, the visual information being acquired by the search information acquiring unit. An image information database has stored therein pieces of image information each about a neighborhood of a road and pieces of position information. A destination searching unit refers to the image information database, to search for image information satisfying the search condition generated by the search condition generating unit and set, as the destination, position information corresponding to the image information.