An information processing system includes a plurality of vehicles, and a server capable of communicating with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of the vehicles generates an image resulting from picking up a vehicle exterior view, each of the plurality of the vehicles or the server decides a candidate spot at which a particular vehicle halts in order for a passenger to get on or get off the particular vehicle, based on the image, and the server stores position information about each of a plurality of the candidate spots decided by the plurality of the vehicles.

A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle based on a recognition result of the recognizer; an acquirer configured to acquire a feature of an outer appearance of a person near the vehicle and store the feature of the outer appearance in a memory; a gesture recognizer configured to recognize a gesture of the person; and a determiner configured to determine whether features of the outer appearance of the person acquired at different timings by the acquirer match. The determiner is configured to determine whether a feature of an outer appearance of the person acquired by the acquirer at a first timing at which the person boards the vehicle matches a feature of the outer appearance of the person acquired by the acquirer at a second timing which is a timing later than the first timing and at which the gesture recognizer recognizes that the person is performing a predetermined gesture. The driving controller is configured to cause the vehicle to stop near the person of which the features are determined to match when the determiner determines that the features match.

A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle, a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, and a schedule information acquirer configured to acquire schedule information of a rider of the vehicle, wherein the driving controller is configured to determine an exiting mode for the vehicle letting the rider exit or a boarding mode for the vehicle letting the rider board on the basis of the schedule information acquired by the schedule information acquirer.

A vehicle control device includes a detector configured to detect a vicinity situation of a vehicle, a first controller configured to cause the vehicle to move to a position at which a user of the vehicle gets on or gets off the vehicle by controlling a speed and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the vicinity situation detected by the detector, and a second controller configured to reduce a detection load of the detector when the vehicle moves to the position as compared to when the vehicle does not move to the position.

A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize first content displayed on a terminal device, and an identifier configured to identify a person carrying the terminal device with the first content displayed thereon outside the vehicle as a user scheduled to use the vehicle or a person relevant to the user on the basis of a comparison between the first content recognized by the recognizer and one or more pieces of content associated with the vehicle.

A vehicle control device includes an acquirer configured to acquire a recognition result of a surroundings situation of a vehicle from a recognition device, and a driving controller configured to control steering and a speed of the vehicle on the basis of the recognition result to move the vehicle so that a user located in a boarding area is able to board the vehicle, and the driving controller is configured to stop the vehicle at a first stop position in a case in which the user has been recognized in the boarding area when the vehicle is moved to the boarding area, and is configured to stop the vehicle at a second stop position in a case in which the user has not been recognized in the boarding area when the vehicle is moved to the boarding area.

A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize at least a surroundings situation and an in-vehicle situation of a vehicle, and a driving controller configured to perform at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, the recognizer is configured to recognize an object to be loaded including at least any one of an occupant candidate present outside the vehicle and scheduled to board the vehicle and a baggage candidate present outside the vehicle and scheduled to be loaded into the vehicle, and to recognize that the object to be loaded has been loaded into the vehicle, and the driving controller is configured to permit start of travel of the vehicle in a case where the recognizer has recognized that all of the objects to be loaded have been loaded into the vehicle.

A vehicle control system includes: a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding environment of a vehicle; and a driving controller that performs speed control and steering control of the vehicle automatically on the basis of a recognition result obtained by the recognizer. When the vehicle is moved to a boarding position at which an occupant boards the vehicle and is stopped, the driving controller stops the vehicle on the basis of at least one of weather information at the boarding position, a state of the occupant recognized by the recognizer, and an environment of the boarding position recognized by the recognizer and determines a stopping position of the vehicle according to the environment of the boarding position or the state of the occupant when the weather information is a predetermined state.

A method for route planning for an autonomous vehicle includes determining whether a route to a destination includes a stall factor and determining whether the autonomous vehicle will be occupied during the route. The method also includes determining an alternate route based on the determined stall factor when the autonomous vehicle will be unoccupied. The method still further includes controlling the autonomous vehicle to drive on the alternate route when the alternate route does not include a stall factor.

A control device for a vehicle includes an upper limit value setting unit configured to set an upper limit value of an acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle, and a vehicle controller configured to control the vehicle such that the acceleration or deceleration does not exceed the upper limit value. The upper limit value setting unit is configured to change the upper limit value according w at least one predetermined condition.