A driving apparatus includes a body; at least one sensor that is exposed to an outside of the body and configured to sense a user input for controlling driving of the body; a controller configured to generate at least one control command for driving of the body according to the sensed user input; and a motor that is configured to generate a driving force for driving the body according to the generated at least one control command.

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for vehicle control. The method includes: obtaining (101) manual operation information of a vehicle; determining (102) an intervention intention of a driver based on the manual operation information; and controlling (103), when the vehicle is currently in an automated driving mode and the intervention intention is determined to be a slow intervention, the vehicle to reach a predetermined safe state and handing corresponding control of the vehicle over to the driver. The method and apparatus can solve potential safety problems in vehicle control and improve safety of the vehicle control.

A vehicle control system includes: a reception section configured to receive a selection operation for one or more driving modes by an occupant of a vehicle from out of plural driving modes having different control characteristics related to acceleration/deceleration or cornering; and an automated driving controller configured to perform automated driving in which at least one of speed control and steering control of the vehicle is controlled automatically based on the driving mode received as the selection operation by the reception section.

The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for vehicle control. The method includes: obtaining (101) manual operation information of a vehicle; determining (102) an intervention intention of a driver based on the manual operation information; and controlling (103), when the vehicle is currently in an automated driving mode and the intervention intention is determined to be a slow intervention, the vehicle to reach a predetermined safe state and handing corresponding control of the vehicle over to the driver. The method and apparatus can solve potential safety problems in vehicle control and improve safety of the vehicle control.

A controller with energy economy rating (EER) calibration logic is configured to adjust a look-ahead time and feed-forward mapping window for vehicle controls according to EER.

Systems and processes for implementation at an autonomous-driving vehicle of transportation. exemplary processes include obtaining, by a tangible human-machine interface, an autonomous-vehicle-passenger communication, and obtaining, by a hardware-based processing unit, context data comprising learned-passenger data based on prior activity of an autonomous-vehicle-passenger. Processes also include determining, based on the autonomous-vehicle-passenger communication and the context data, at least one of (i) an appropriate autonomous-driving function, (ii) appropriate assistance to provide to the autonomous-vehicle-passenger, and (iii) appropriate information to provide to the autonomous-vehicle-passenger.

A vehicle control apparatus, which controls an execution of an autonomous driving of a vehicle, is configured to: acquire a driving characteristic information item indicating a numerical value or a degree of a driving characteristic used in an autonomous driving of the vehicle; and set the driving characteristic to be used in the autonomous driving of the vehicle with the acquired driving characteristic information item. The driving characteristic to be used in the autonomous driving is set using the acquired driving characteristic information item to be different from a driving characteristic of a manual driving operation performed by a user of the vehicle.

A driving apparatus includes a body; at least one sensor that is exposed to an outside of the body and configured to sense a user input for controlling driving of the body; a controller configured to generate at least one control command for driving of the body according to the sensed user input; and a motor that is configured to generate a driving force for driving the body according to the generated at least one control command.

A travel control method for executing autonomous lane change control of a vehicle includes, before performing two or more successive lane changes, presenting the driver with first lane change information as to whether or not to accept execution of autonomous control of the successive lane changes; when detecting a first acceptance input made by the driver indicating that the driver accepts the execution of the autonomous control, executing first autonomous lane change control; then presenting the driver with second lane change information as to whether or not to accept execution of the autonomous lane change control after the first lane change; and when detecting a second acceptance input made by the driver, executing the autonomous lane change control after the first lane change. An action load of the second acceptance input is set smaller than an action load of the first acceptance input.

The invention relates to a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, comprising a surroundings sensor system, a controller, and an analysis module. The controller is equipped and designed so as to ascertain an assistance function control signal on the basis of surroundings data detected by the surroundings sensor system, said assistance function control signal being in a specified functional relationship with at least one assistance system parameter and the detected surroundings data, and to actuate the vehicle so as to provide an assistance function by means of the assistance function control signal. The analysis module is equipped and designed so as to ascertain a success value for the assistance function control signal using reference information and to initiate an optimization of the at least one assistance system parameter if the success value falls below a success threshold.