In a method for operating a vehicle, a planning map and a localization map are provided, the vehicle is localized on the localization map, a map corridor indicated in the planning map is selected based on the localization, a sensor corridor is ascertained using a sensor unit of the vehicle, and the map corridor is compared to the sensor corridor. Using a specified threshold value for a deviation between the map corridor and the sensor corridor, it is decided whether the map corridor and the sensor corridor are identical. The map corridor is utilized for operating the vehicle if the map corridor and the sensor corridor are identical, and the sensor corridor is utilized for operating the vehicle if the map corridor and the sensor corridor are not identical.

The disclosure describes a method for operating an automated vehicle comprising: receiving environmental data; ascertaining a driving area that is to be traveled on by the vehicle, and a prohibited area that is not to be traveled on by the vehicle, based on the environmental data; determining whether a bottleneck exists in which the driving area is in an at least partially blocked state by a further road user or an obstacle, such that it is not possible, exclusively using the driving area, for the automated vehicle and/or the further road user to pass or for the automated vehicle to pass by the obstacle; ascertaining a trajectory in which the vehicle at least partially uses the prohibited area if a bottleneck exists; and emitting an actuation signal for operating the automated vehicle based on ascertained trajectory.

A mobile object control system includes: a storage device configured to store instructions; and one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions stored in the storage device to: acquire an image in which a road where a mobile object is present is imaged; recognize support information for supporting movement of a specific traffic participant who is a traffic participant having a predetermined attribute appearing on a road surface included in the image; recognize a road structure included in the image or a road structure which is a structure provided on the road; move the mobile object at least based on a trajectory determined using the support information when the support information is recognized; and move the mobile object based on a trajectory determined using the road structure without using the support information when the support information has not been recognized.

A control device for a mobile object includes a recognizer capable of recognizing a situation in a periphery of a mobile object, and a controller configured to control acceleration or deceleration of the mobile object based on the recognized situation in the periphery, and, when (1) there is a first obstacle that makes it difficult to recognize a situation on an opposite side in recognition of the situation in an extending direction of a road, (2) an end of the first obstacle is recognized and the first obstacle extends a first predetermined distance forward from the end, and (3) there is no second obstacle that makes it difficult to recognize the situation on the opposite side over a second predetermined distance on a traveling direction side of the mobile object from the end, the controller sets a risk area at a reference position based on the end of the first obstacle, and controls at least a speed of the mobile object based on the set risk area.

A vehicular control system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU). The vehicular control system, responsive to processing at the ECU of sensor data captured by one of the plurality of sensors, detects an object in the path of the vehicle. The object may be one selected from the group consisting of (i) a pothole, (ii) road debris, and (iii) a speed bump. The ECU, responsive to detecting the object in the path of the vehicle, provides an output to another ECU. The other ECU, responsive to receiving the output, controls two or more of (i) braking of the vehicle, (ii) steering of the vehicle, and (iii) suspension of the vehicle.

A system for controlling a subject vehicle includes a front detection unit to detect a driving situation of a target vehicle located in front of the subject vehicle; a determination unit to detect reversing of the target vehicle or predict a collision between the target vehicle and the subject vehicle through the front detection unit; and a control unit to, when the reversing of the target vehicle is detected or the collision between target vehicle and the subject vehicle is predicted through the determination unit, generate a warning signal of the subject vehicle or control driving of the subject vehicle so that the subject vehicle avoids the collision with the target vehicle.

This invention provides a vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, which comprises a first detection unit that detects an out-of-lane region outside a lane in which the vehicle is traveling; a second detection unit that detects an obstacle; a notification unit that issues a notification to prompt a driver to perform a steering operation toward the out-of-lane region in a case where the first detection unit detects the out-of-lane region, the second detection unit detects the obstacle, and the vehicle and the obstacle have a predetermined relationship; and a determination unit that determines that steering control in the out-of-lane region is approved in a case where, after the notification unit starts to issue the notification, the vehicle enters the out-of-lane region in response to a steering operation by the driver.

A collision avoidance method for a vehicle includes monitoring a lateral distance between the vehicle and a target vehicle while the vehicle is travelling within a first lane and the target vehicle is travelling within an adjacent second lane, activating a warning on the vehicle and automatically adjusting operation of the vehicle to increase the distance between the vehicle and the target vehicle when the lateral distance between the vehicle and the target vehicle is less than the threshold distance while the vehicle is travelling within the first lane. Automatically adjusting operation of the vehicle may include one or both of steering the vehicle laterally away from the target vehicle and adjusting a longitudinal velocity of the vehicle. A related collision avoidance system is also provided.

Methods and systems for controlling a vehicle. The system includes a localization system, a memory storing a digital map, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from the localization system, a current location of the vehicle and determine a future driving segment of the vehicle based on the current location of the vehicle. The electronic processor is further configured to determine at least one performance limitation based on the future driving segment of the vehicle and modify a driving behavior of the vehicle based upon the determined at least one performance limitation.

An autonomous driving system acquires information concerning a vehicle density in an adjacent lane that is adjacent to a lane on which an own vehicle is traveling, when the own vehicle travels on a road having a plurality of lanes. The autonomous driving system selects the adjacent lane as an own vehicle travel lane, when the vehicle density in the adjacent lane that is calculated from the acquired information is lower than a threshold density that is determined in accordance with relations between the own vehicle and surrounding vehicles. The autonomous driving system performs lane change to the adjacent lane autonomously, or propose lane change to the adjacent lane to a driver, when the adjacent lane is selected as the own vehicle travel lane.