A system for comparing driver intent and a gear setting of a vehicle comprises a driver monitoring system including at least one driver monitoring sensor configured to capture attributes of the driver indicative of driver intent regarding an intended direction of travel. The system also comprises an evaluation processor configured to access driver data from the driver monitoring system. The evaluation processor is also configured to generate a mismatch signal in response to determining a mismatch between the driver intent and a gear setting of the vehicle. The evaluation processor may also be configured to control braking and/or acceleration of the vehicle in response to determining a mismatch between the driver intent and a gear setting of the vehicle. The system may also use data regarding an object within a threshold distance from a front or a rear of the vehicle, and/or a requested acceleration above a threshold amount.

An approach is provided for calibrating vehicle motion data using a rotation matrix calculated based on mobile device sensor data, thereby determining vehicle events (e.g., forward acceleration, stoppages, etc.). The approach, for example, involves determining a road segment that meets one or more criteria for straightness, inclination, or a combination thereof. The approach also involves collecting sensor data from at least one sensor of a mobile device associated with a vehicle in motion on the road segment based on the determination. The sensor data indicates one or more acceleration vectors in a mobile device frame of reference. The approach further involves calibrating the one or more acceleration vectors from the mobile device frame of reference to a vehicle frame of reference based on the sensor data. The approach further involves providing the one or more calibrated acceleration vectors as an output.

A pull-over control apparatus includes: an input that receives information on a pull-over area determined as a pull-over destination for a vehicle present on a roadway and information on an object recognized in the pull-over area; and a controller that recognizes the pull-over area while dividing the pull-over area into a plurality of partial areas, based on the information on the pull-over area, the plurality of partial areas including at least a first partial area closest to the vehicle and a second partial area adjacent to the first partial area, the controller controlling, based on the information on the object, the vehicle so that the vehicle is pulled over to a first range where pull-over of the vehicle is possible among the plurality of the partial areas.

A vehicle collision avoidance assistance device is configured to perform forced braking or forced steering when a driver's vehicle has a possibility of colliding with an object ahead of the driver's vehicle, acquire at least one of information related to a condition of the driver's vehicle and information related to a situation around the driver's vehicle, determine, based on the acquired information, whether a request condition for requesting execution of the forced steering is satisfied and whether a forbiddance condition for forbidding the execution of the forced steering is satisfied, perform the forced braking when the request condition is not satisfied regardless of whether the forbiddance condition is satisfied, perform the forced steering when the forbiddance condition is not satisfied and the request condition is satisfied, and perform the forced braking when the forbiddance condition is satisfied though the request condition is satisfied.

A vehicle system configured to control a vehicle provided with a vehicle platform that includes a drive unit, an auxiliary device, a first controller, a second controller, a high-voltage electric power source, a low-voltage electric power source, an autonomous driving platform that performs autonomous driving control, and a vehicle control interface that connects the vehicle platform and the autonomous driving platform to each other and is configured to convert a first control instruction into a second control instruction with respect to the vehicle platform, and transmit the second control instruction. The vehicle system includes a controlling device configured to cause the second controller and the vehicle control interface to enter an operating state and cut off supply of electric power from the high-voltage electric power source to the drive unit.

A driving assistance apparatus including a detection part detecting surroundings of a subject vehicle and a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring traffic light information including a remaining time period until a traffic light installed at an intersection is switched, controlling a notification part so as to notify a driver of the subject vehicle of switching information of the traffic light from a first mode capable of passing through the intersection to a second mode incapable of passing through the intersection, and determining whether there is a space into which the subject vehicle is movable in an area after passing through the intersection based on the surroundings. The microprocessor is configured to perform the controlling including controlling the notification part so as to notify the driver of warning information together with the switching information when it is determined that there is not the space.

A vehicle motion control device generates a travel route where behavior of a vehicle traveling on a curve is small and comfortable ride is achieved even when the vehicle travels on a continuous curve. The control device includes a travel track generation unit that generates, based on information on a curvature of a first curve on a lane existing in a traveling direction of a vehicle and a curvature of a second curve connected to the first curve, a travel route by setting curvature of the travel route at a time of traveling on a curve having a smaller curvature between the first and second curves to be larger than the curvature of the curve and setting a curvature of the travel route at a time of traveling on a curve having a larger curvature between the first and second curves to be smaller than the curvature of the curve.

Systems and methods are provided for autonomous vehicle navigation. The systems and methods may map a lane mark, may map a directional arrow, selectively harvest road information based on data quality, map road segment free spaces, map traffic lights and determine traffic light relevancy, and map traffic lights and associated traffic light cycle times.

A method and an apparatus for controlling lane changing, and a storage medium includes: predicting a target pose of a vehicle changed to a second lane based on a current pose of the vehicle on a first lane in response to a trigger of changing the vehicle from the first lane to the second lane; and determining a lane changing preparation pose of the vehicle on the first lane based on the target pose and at least one parameter of the vehicle.

A method and apparatus for planning a route, and a readable storage medium are provided. An implementation of the method includes: in a process of that an autonomous vehicle travels according to a first travelling route, in response to a situation where changing from a current lane to a target lane at a vehicle lane-changing permitted road section is planned for the autonomous vehicle but the autonomous vehicle is unable to change to the target lane, determining for the autonomous vehicle a permitted travel direction at a target intersection, the target intersection being a road intersection in front of the autonomous vehicle and corresponding to the vehicle lane-changing permitted road section, and the first travelling route being a travelling route pre-planned for a target starting point and a target ending point; and planning, based on the permitted travel direction, a second travelling route for the autonomous vehicle to pass through the target intersection to reach the target ending point.