Aspects of the disclosure relate to parking behaviors and maneuvering a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode accordingly. For instance, a pullover location for the vehicle to stop and wait for a passenger may be identified. The vehicle may be maneuvered in the autonomous driving mode in order to pull over by pulling forward into the pullover location. Whether to maneuver the vehicle in reverse in the pullover location before or after the passenger enters the vehicle may be determined based on context for the pull over with respect to the passenger. The vehicle may be maneuvered in the autonomous driving mode in reverse based on the determination of whether to maneuver the vehicle in reverse in the pullover location before or after the passenger enters the vehicle.

Provided is an automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user. The system includes a user position determination unit configured to determine whether or not a user frontend of the user is located in a preset pick-up area or a preset near-pick-up area including the pick-up space, a pick-up request reception unit configured to receive the pick-up request when the user position determination unit determines that the user frontend is located in the pick-up area or the near-pick-up area, and a vehicle instruction unit configured to instruct the autonomous driving vehicle that is a target of the pick-up request to move to the pick-up space when the pick-up request reception unit receives the pick-up request.

A vehicle including: a communication section configured to receive operation information to operate a travel device from an external operation device; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to: acquire peripheral information peripheral to a vehicle body from a peripheral information detection section, generate a travel plan based on the peripheral information, and control the travel device so as to perform autonomous driving in which travel is based on the generated travel plan, and perform remote driving in which travel is based on the operation information received by the communication section; and the vehicle further comprising a presentation device configured to present, at a vehicle exterior, identifying information received by the communication section, the identifying information relating to a user making use of transportation by the autonomous driving or the remote driving.

A stop control method for the autonomous vehicle includes: a processor configured to classify stop zones depending on predetermined requirement, to select one of the classified stop zones as a stop point by determining a degree of suitability of the classified stop zones based on the predetermined requirement, and to control the autonomous vehicle to stop at the selected stop point when the autonomous vehicle is stopped; and a storage configured to store data and algorithms driven by the processor.

A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to, upon determining that a vehicle entered a geofenced area, start a timer; upon determining that a handoff of the vehicle from an operator to a remote server has not occurred since starting the timer and that the timer has exceeded a time threshold, determine whether the operator is absent based on data from sensors; and then, upon determining that the operator is absent, instruct the vehicle to follow a command received from the remote server.

In accordance with an embodiment, a neural network is configured to: process a first grid representing at least a first portion of a field of view of a first sensor; process a second grid representing at least a second portion of a field of view of a second sensor; and fuse the processed first grid with the processed second grid into a fused grid, where the fused grid includes information about the occupancy of the first portion of the field of view of the first sensor and the occupancy of the second portion of the field of view of the second sensor.

A control unit of a server device as an information processing apparatus is configured to: provide first information on a service for each of a plurality of moving objects, each of which is configured to provide a different service and autonomous travel; acquire second information on time and location of at least one service that a user wants to use; and determine at least one moving object that matches with the user based on the first information and the second information, and generate a travel plan of the at least one moving object.

A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to, upon determining that a vehicle entered a geofenced area, start a timer; upon determining that a handoff of the vehicle from an operator to a remote server has not occurred since starting the timer and that the timer has exceeded a time threshold, determine whether the operator is absent based on data from sensors; and then, upon determining that the operator is absent, instruct the vehicle to follow a command received from the remote server.

A parking management device includes: a communicator configured to communicate with a vehicle and a terminal device of a user of the vehicle; a return manager configured to determine a sequence in which the vehicle arrives at a boarding area in which the user boards based on a position of the user recognized based on information acquired by the communicator, whether there is a return request of the vehicle from a parking lot which is acquired by the communicator, and coincidence between a time at which the return request of the vehicle is acquired and a return reservation time of the vehicle acquired in advance by the communicator; and a vehicle controller configured to transmit information which is used by a return target vehicle in autonomous traveling from the parking lot to the boarding area to the return target vehicle based on a sequence of the return target vehicle determined by the return manager.

A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to automatically perform speed control and steering control of the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, wherein the driving controller is configured to cause, after letting a user alight the vehicle, the vehicle to start traveling from a stopped state when the recognizer has recognized a specific operation that the alighted user performs on or toward a body of the vehicle.