In some aspects, a safety system may be configured to receive vehicle position data indicating a position of a vehicle, determine a first lane segment in a lane coordinate system based on the vehicle position data, the first lane segment being a lane segment in which the vehicle is located, determine a relevant set of lane segments based on a safety-range from the first lane segment, determine or receive obstacle position data indicating a second lane segment in the lane coordinate system, the second lane segment being a lane segment in which an obstacle is located, and classify the obstacle either as a non-relevant obstacle in the case that the second lane segment is not included in the relevant set of lane segments, or as a relevant obstacle in the case that the second lane segment is included in the relevant set of lane segments.

The present invention provides a control system and a control method capable of appropriately supporting driving of a motorcycle by a rider. The control system includes a tracking target vehicle identifying unit that identifies a tracking target vehicle of adaptive cruise operation, a vehicle position information acquiring unit that acquires information on the relative position of the tracking target vehicle with respect to the motorcycle during traveling, a control amount setting unit that sets a control amount in the adaptive cruise operation, and an execution unit that causes the motorcycle to execute the adaptive cruise operation, and further includes a lane position information acquiring unit that acquires information on the relative position of a lane boundary with respect to the motorcycle during traveling, in which the tracking target vehicle identifying unit identifies the tracking target vehicle, based on the position information acquired by the lane position information acquiring unit.

A method for correcting a travelling trajectory of a vehicle which is executed by a processor includes: generating a subject vehicle travelling route that a subject vehicle travels based on map information stored in a database; calculating a travelling trajectory of the subject vehicle to be a target trajectory when the subject vehicle travels on the subject vehicle travelling route; detecting a position of another vehicle travelling on a lane located in a width direction of the subject vehicle by a sensor provided for the subject vehicle; calculating an offset of a position of the other vehicle in another vehicle lane that the other vehicle travels based on the position of the other vehicle; and correcting the travelling trajectory of the subject vehicle in accordance with the offset.

A method for operating a vehicle in an automatic driving operation not requiring any user action which can be deactivated by a deactivation action of a driver of the vehicle includes, during the automatic driving operation in a learning phase, driving situations in which the driver deactivates the automatic driving operation are recorded by a surroundings recording device and the recorded driving situations are stored in a memory as subjectively critical driving situations. The method further includes, during an operating phase of the automatic driving operation, comparing a currently recorded driving situation to the stored subjectively critical driving situations and emitting a warning to the driver when the currently recorded driving situation matches one of the stored subjectively critical driving situations within a tolerance range.

An automated vehicle control distributed network node, that includes at least two modems for communicating with two neighboring roadside nodes on the same side of the roadway; at least one antenna for communicating with vehicles via a wireless connection; pattern recognition processing operative to detect patterns using image data from a plurality of high speed, high resolution video cameras that include night vision; vehicle prediction processing, operatively coupled to the pattern recognition processing, operative to predict vehicle location, velocity and direction using the pattern recognition processing; and a vehicle controller, operatively coupled to the vehicle prediction processing to receive vehicle prediction data, and to the at least one antenna, operative to send acceleration, deceleration and steering control signals to a plurality of vehicles in response to vehicle prediction data received from the vehicle prediction processing.

Provided are a method, a server, and a computer program for creating a road network map to design a driving plan for an autonomous driving vehicle. A method of creating a road network map to design a driving plan for an autonomous driving vehicle is performed by a computing device and includes: generating road network data for an area; generating lattice road network data for a short-term driving plan for an autonomous driving vehicle using the generated road network data; and generating a crossable dipole graph for a long-term driving plan for the autonomous driving vehicle using the generated lattice road network data.

A method of improving a merging efficiency of an ego vehicle is described. The method includes determining one or more merge gaps between vehicles in a target lane of a multilane highway. The method also includes computing an exposure time in which the ego vehicle is specified to merge into the one or more merge gaps. The method further includes selecting a merge gap between a first vehicle and a second vehicle in the target lane of the multilane highway having a maximum exposure time.

A control system (10) is suitable for use in one's own motor vehicle (12) and is configured and intended to use the environmental data provided to determine a position and a speed of a first motor vehicle (28) which is traveling directly ahead of one's own motor vehicle (12) in a first Lane (36), wherein one's own motor vehicle (12) is in the said lane (36). Furthermore, the control system is at least configured and intended to determine a position and a speed of a second motor vehicle (30) which is traveling in a lane (38) adjacent to the first lane (36) from the environmental data provided. Furthermore, the control system is configured and intended to detect from the environmental data provided whether there is a zipper situation. The control system is configured and intended to increase a target distance of one's own motor vehicle (12) to the first motor vehicle, if an amount of a relative speed of the second motor vehicle (30) relative to one's own motor vehicle (12) or relative to the first motor vehicle (28) is less than a predetermined first value, if the second motor vehicle (30) is located between one's own motor vehicle (12) and the first motor vehicle (28) in a longitudinal direction which extends along the adjacent lane (38), and if it was detected that the zipper situation applies.

To provide an automatic driving and driving support system, an automatic driving support apparatus, an automatic driving vehicle, and the like which can make the automatic driving vehicle generate the target traveling track suitable for the front road state which cannot be detected by the automatic driving vehicle, while suppressing the increase in the calculation processing load of the automatic vehicle. In an automatic driving and driving support system, when the target traveling track is acquired from the preceding vehicle which precedes and travels the same lane as a lane of the scheduled traveling route acquired from the support object vehicle, the automatic driving support apparatus transmits the target traveling track to the support object vehicle; and the automatic driving vehicle generates the target traveling track of the own vehicle based on the acquired target traveling track of the preceding vehicle.

A monitoring area setting apparatus is mountable to an own vehicle and sets a monitoring area that indicates an area for monitoring objects in a vicinity of the own vehicle. The monitoring area setting apparatus acquires (i) at least either of a vehicle-width movement amount that indicates an amount of movement in a vehicle-width direction of the own vehicle and an inclination amount that indicates a degree of inclination of the own vehicle relative to an extending direction of a road on which the own vehicle is traveling, and (ii) information that the own vehicle has changed traffic lanes. The monitoring area setting apparatus sets the monitoring area taking into consideration at least either of the vehicle-width movement amount and the inclination amount in response to the own vehicle changing traffic lanes.