The present disclosure concerns a safety system for a vehicle. The vehicle includes a tracking unit and at least one chassis sensor. The safety system may receive sensor data from the at least one chassis sensor and trusted data from the tracking unit, and then may detect an inconsistency between the sensor data and the trusted data. In response to the detection of the inconsistency, the safety system may block at least parts of the sensor data from the at least one chassis sensor.

A navigation system includes: a control circuit configured to: generate a video clip by parsing an interval of a sensor data stream for a region of travel; analyze the video clip submitted to a deep learning model, already trained, including identifying a traffic flow estimate; access a position coordinate for calculating a distance to intersection; generate a traffic flow state by fusing a corrected speed, the traffic flow estimate, and the distance to intersection; merge a vehicle maneuvering instruction into the traffic flow state for maneuvering through the region of travel; and a communication circuit, coupled to the control circuit, configured to: communicate the traffic flow state for displaying on a device.

Embodiments for operational envelope detection (OED) with situational assessment are disclosed. Embodiments herein relate to an operational envelope detector that is configured to receive, as inputs, information related to sensors of the system and information related to operational design domain (ODD) requirements. The OED then compares the information related to sensors of the system to the information related to the ODD requirements, and identifies whether the system is operating within its ODD or whether a remedial action is appropriate to adjust the ODD requirements based on the current sensor information. Other embodiments are described and/or claimed.

A method is provided for controlling a transmit power of at least one active vehicle surround sensor of a vehicle driven in an at least partially automated manner, at least one automated driving function of the vehicle being implemented on the basis of surroundings data acquired by the active vehicle surround sensor and/or on the basis of data received from an infrastructure. The method includes: receiving at least one first message from an infrastructure; generating, depending on information in the received first message, control signals for reducing the transmit power of an active vehicle surround sensor, and outputting the control signals; verifying, on the basis of surroundings conditions, whether the transmit power of the active vehicle surround sensor can be increased again; generating, depending on the verification, control signals for increasing the transmit power of the active vehicle surround sensor, and outputting the control signals.

A vehicle-exterior-notification control device includes processing circuitry to detect a person present around a crosswalk present in a traveling direction of a first vehicle on a basis of information output from a surrounding information detecting device to detect information around the first vehicle, to detect whether or not the person has an intention to cross the crosswalk before the first vehicle, a vehicle control unit to execute stop control to stop the first vehicle in a case where it is detected that the person has an intention to cross the crosswalk before the first vehicle, to detect a second vehicle present around the first vehicle on a basis of information output from the surrounding information detecting device, and to issue a vehicle-notification instruction for making a notification to the second vehicle in a case where the stop control is executed.

Disclosed is a method for a vehicle transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise: receiving information on a road environment; driving a vehicle along a selected path on the basis of the information on the road environment; and, on the basis of satisfying a predetermined condition, transmitting a message for reserving a lane change to a specific lane among at least one lane included in the path. In addition, the message may include information on a virtual vehicle corresponding to the vehicle when in the specific lane. In addition, whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied may be determined on the basis of: i) the right of way of the vehicle with respect to the lane changing; or ii) a back-off counter.

A method for operating a hybrid vehicle includes obtaining propulsion switching data descriptive of a state of one or more vehicle systems for switching power flow of an internal combustion engine and an electric machine. The propulsion switching data may be used to provide a driver behavior recommendation and/or an actual environmental impact of the hybrid vehicle.

A test-optimizing system for supporting shadow mode testing of ADS software included in an ADS-provided vehicle. One or more potential vehicle routes are retrieved. A geographical area covering the one or more potential vehicle routes is obtained and data of crucial locations associated with past vehicle situations identified as critical and/or challenging. Moreover, the test-optimizing system retrieves respective ODD for one or more candidate software respectively adapted to run in the background of the vehicle. ODD-compliant locations for respective candidate software are determined, by identifying locations out of the data of crucial locations lying within respective candidate software's ODD. At least a first test-compliant location along at least a first route out of the one or more potential vehicle routes is determined by identifying for at least a first candidate software, locations out of the ODD-compliant locations situated along the at least first route.

A hybrid vehicle includes an electric motor, a power storage device, an engine, and a controller. The controller executes switching control for switching control modes. The controller adds, to a first traveling distance, a traveling distance that is obtained when a state in which the engine is not operating and a power storage amount of the power storage device is higher than a threshold continues, and adds, to a second traveling distance, a traveling distance that is obtained when a state in which the engine is not operating and a charge depleting mode is selected continues.

An intelligent traffic control system may be configured to manage autonomous vehicle traffic, such as by communicating with autonomous vehicles. The intelligent traffic control system may be configured to output an indication of a traffic control command to autonomous vehicles and non-autonomous vehicles. The intelligent traffic control system may be configured to determine traffic control commands for autonomous vehicles and non-autonomous vehicles.