Systems and methods are provided for vehicle navigation. In one implementation, a system may comprise an interface to obtain sensing data of an environment of the host vehicle. The processing device may be configured to determine a planned navigational action; identify, a target vehicle in the environment of the host vehicle; predict a distance between the host vehicle and the target vehicle if the planned navigational action was taken; determine a current host vehicle stopping distance based on a braking capability, acceleration capability, and speed of the host vehicle; determine a current target vehicle braking distance based on a speed and braking capability of the target vehicle; and implement the planned navigational action when the predicted distance of the planned navigational action is greater than a minimum safe longitudinal distance calculated based on the current host vehicle stopping distance and the current target vehicle braking distance.

A method and a following space management unit of a host vehicle for managing a following space are disclosed. The following space management unit obtains a set of parameters including one or more of a difference parameter, indicating a difference between a velocity of the host vehicle and a speed limit for the host vehicle at a current location, and a road marking parameter, indicating whether a surrounding vehicle is allowed to enter the current lane. The following space management unit determines the following space based on the set of parameters.

A vehicle control device includes an input unit configured to receive plural requests for a physical amount to be controlled in a vehicle; a judgment unit configured to judge whether or not a degree of priority of each of the received requests is high: a second mediation unit configured to, when there are plural requests whose degrees of priority are judged not to be high, mediate these plural requests to determine a control target value (Rm); a transfer unit configured to, when there is a request whose degree of priority is judged to be high, transfer this request as the control target value; and an output unit configured to output the control target value transferred from the transfer unit or determined by the second mediation unit to a VDC.

In a vehicle control system (1, 101, 201) configured for autonomous driving, a control unit executes a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop area when it is detected that the control unit or a driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and a stop maintaining process for keeping the vehicle parked following the vehicle coming to a stop in the stop process. The control unit keeps the brake lamp turned on while the stop maintaining process is being executed.

A body component of a first vehicle comprises at least one of an integrated retroreflector system configured to reflect radar waves from a second vehicle according to a predefined retroreflective pattern and an integrated light accent system configured to generate and emit light waves according to a defined light pattern. Receipt of at least one of the reflected radar waves and the light waves by the second vehicle causes a controller of the second vehicle to recognize, by accessing a memory database, at least one of the defined retroreflective and light patterns and, in response to recognizing at least one of the defined retroreflective and light patterns, more accurately control an autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system of the second vehicle to thereby improve the performance of the AEB system.

A control system for a subject vehicle includes an autonomous braking system, a forward monitoring sensor and a rearward monitoring sensor. The controller monitors a first speed of a first vehicle travelling in front of the subject vehicle and a second speed of a second vehicle travelling to the rear of the subject vehicle. A first gap-closing time is determined based upon the speed of the subject vehicle and the first speed of the first vehicle. A second gap-closing time is determined based upon the speed of the subject vehicle and the second speed of the second vehicle. The controller controls the speed of the subject vehicle based upon the first gap-closing time and the second gap-closing time when one of the first gap-closing time or the second gap-closing time is less than a first threshold time.

A braking assist control device for a vehicle including a detector and a braking assist control device is provided. The braking assist control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on an ambient environment of an own vehicle from the detector, and a control unit configured to cause the braking assist device to perform intersection entry prevention assist in a case where it is determined, using the acquired information on the ambient environment, that the own vehicle is approaching an intersection and an own lane in which the own vehicle is traveling is a non-priority lane with respect to an intersecting lane.

A system and method for classifying an actuation of an electric parking brake of a vehicle. In one example, the system includes a sensor configured to sense a vehicle parameter, an output device, a data store including an electric parking brake usage profile, and an electronic controller configured to receive the electric parking brake usage profile, receive the vehicle parameter from the sensor, detect an actuation of the electric parking brake, and in response to detecting an actuation of the electric parking brake: determine a reason for the actuation of the electric parking brake, determine an attribute of the vehicle based on the vehicle parameter, classify the actuation of the electric parking brake based on at least one selected from the group consisting of a numerical value of the attribute and the reason for the actuation of the electric parking brake, update the electric parking brake usage profile based on the classification of the actuation of the electric parking brake, and output the updated parking brake usage profile to the output device.

An electronic braking system including a prime mover speed sensor structured to sense a prime mover speed, a vehicle speed sensor structured to sense a vehicle speed, one or more processing circuits comprising one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors, the one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine an overspeed condition based on the prime mover speed and the vehicle speed, generate a tuned overspeed value based on the overspeed condition, and generate a braking command based on the tuned overspeed value.

The invention relates to a method for operating a control device for a braking system of a motor vehicle, wherein the control device receives a braking request from a driver assistance system and determines a target value of a braking operation parameter of the braking system and determines an ideal temporal process for the braking operation parameter, which gradually leads to the target value, complying with a predetermined jerk criterion, and a determines a control fault of an actual value of the braking operation parameter in relation to the ideal process and determines a request value for a controller of a brake pressure pump of the braking system from the control fault on the basis of a controller unit. According to the invention, the control device determines a maximum achievable temporal gradient of the braking operation parameter by means of the brake pressure pump and examines whether the gradient fulfills a freezing criterion and, in the case of the freezing criterion being fulfilled, limits at least one control operation parameter of the controller unit and/or a gradient of the brake request.