Systems and methods for providing activity recommendations to occupants of a vehicle are provided, particularly for the intent of motivating the occupants to engage in certain physically and/or mentally beneficial activities. A method, according to one implementation, includes the step of detecting when a vehicle has been driven to a vehicle servicing facility. The method also includes the step of providing activity recommendations to one or more people present in the vehicle when the vehicle has been driven to the vehicle servicing facility.

A vehicle lane change control apparatus includes a condition information acquisition unit that acquires condition information of an occupant of a vehicle, a lane change rate database unit that stores a lane change rate that is determined based on a lane change pattern of a driver analyzed based on driving information when a lane of the vehicle is changed and road condition information when the lane of the vehicle is changed and indicates a speed of the lane change, and a control unit that changes the lane of the vehicle through steering control according to operation information of the vehicle, and based on the condition information of the occupant acquired by the condition information acquisition unit, controls the lane change of the vehicle by selectively using the lane change rate and a corrected lane change rate determined by increasing or decreasing the lane change rate.

A method of providing a content and advertisement customized to a passenger boarding a vehicle includes: receiving passenger information about a passenger from a user terminal of a passenger in a vehicle by a server; determining a passenger's preference based on the passenger information, and selecting a plurality of pieces of content information and a plurality of pieces of advertisement information according to the determined passenger's preference by the server; calculating an estimated travel time for the vehicle to arrive at a destination based on the passenger information by the server; creating a playlist by selecting the content information and the advertisement information such that the total sum of the replay time is at least equal to the estimated travel time among a plurality of pieces of selected content information and a plurality of pieces of selected advertisement information; and transmitting the created playlist to the passenger terminal.

A method and device for determining whether a user is actively driving a motor vehicle or car sick. The sensor device is provided for sensing eye movement of the user and the method includes supplying an artificial intelligence with data originating from the sensor device in order to recognize at least one frequency of eye movements of the user, a frequency of eye movements above a first threshold characterizing a visualization by the user of a passing landscape, and being distinguished from a concentration of gaze of a vehicle driver, and determining a current frequency of eye movements of the user and comparing the current frequency with the first threshold, and if the current frequency is greater than the first threshold, triggering a notification signal for the user.

Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to sensing interactions of a passenger with components within a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring, from a radar of a vehicle, radar data about a passenger cabin of the vehicle. The method includes determining a current state of the passenger cabin according to the radar data. The method includes, responsive to identifying that the current state indicates that a passenger satisfies a threshold in relation to an unpermitted action, generating a response that counters the unpermitted action.

A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, the vehicle control device being configured to switch between automatic driving and manual driving of the vehicle, learn driving characteristics during the manual driving, and reflect a learned value of the driving characteristics in control during the automatic driving. Further, the vehicle control device controls the vehicle in a manner that, in the learned value of the driving characteristics, a state of an occupant other than a driver during the manual driving is in association with the driving characteristics.

A biological state guidance device includes a biological state estimation unit configured to estimate a biological state of a driver of a vehicle, a target value decision unit configured to decide on a target value that is an index for setting the biological state of the driver as a target state, an audio stimulus generation unit configured to control an audio stimulus generation device for generating an audio stimulus for guidance so that the biological state of the driver is close to a target value on the basis of the estimated biological state and the target value, a fellow passenger information acquisition unit configured to acquire fellow passenger information about a fellow passenger of the vehicle other than the driver, a target state decision unit configured to decide on a target state of a biological state of the fellow passenger on the basis of the fellow passenger information, and a vibration stimulus generation unit configured to control a vibration stimulus generation device for stimulating the fellow passenger by vibrations. The vibration stimulus generation unit generates the vibrations for guiding the fellow passenger to have the target state as the biological state.

A seat experience system includes a seat and a controller. The seat has a seat body and a sensor. The sensor is configured to acquire biogenic information of an occupant seated on the seat body. The controller is configured to acquire the biogenic information from the sensor, determine whether or not the occupant is in a resting state based on the biogenic information, execute, if the occupant is in the resting state, control in a first mode to sustain the resting state, and execute, if the occupant is not in the resting state, control in a second mode different from the first mode.

The in-vehicle display includes a first display for a driver of a vehicle and a second display for a fellow passenger of the vehicle. An information processing apparatus does not display payment code on the in-vehicle display while the vehicle is in operation when no fellow passenger is present in the vehicle. The information processing apparatus displays the payment code on the second display while the vehicle is in operation when a fellow passenger is present in the vehicle.

A method is described and includes subsequent to an autonomous vehicle becoming immobilized, initiating a local assistance request; subsequent to the initiating, receiving local assistance input from a passenger of the autonomous vehicle; and using the local assistance input to determine an action to be taken by the autonomous vehicle to mobilize the autonomous vehicle.