To provide a vehicle control system that is capable of planning a trajectory that can ensure more visibility and enables safe traveling when an invisible range of a sensor exists.

A vehicle control system that plans a target trajectory of a vehicle based on recognition information from an external environment sensor, the vehicle control system including a recognizing unit that recognizes an object at a periphery of the vehicle based on the recognition information; and a trajectory planning unit that plans the target trajectory such that an actual detection range of the external environment sensor becomes wide when the recognizing unit recognizes the object.

A vehicle control device controls travel of a vehicle by performing state transition for a plurality of control states having different driving assistance levels based on vehicle surrounding information. The vehicle control device comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire the vehicle surrounding information; and a control unit configured to control the state transition and braking operation of the vehicle based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein, based on the information, the control unit is configured to transition from a first control state set for travel of the vehicle to a second control state with a lower driving assistance level in a case where it is determined that another vehicle is crossing a lane line in front of the vehicle in a lane where the vehicle is traveling.

A presentation control device is configured to control information presentation to a driver of a vehicle. A determination unit is configured to distinguish between a monitoring interruption mode in which the driver is permitted to interrupt surroundings monitoring and a monitoring-required mode in which the driver is prohibited to interrupt the surroundings monitoring, and in the monitoring-required mode, between a hands-free permitted state and a hands-free prohibited state. A presentation control unit configured to perform the information presentation related to a mode transition from the monitoring interruption mode to the monitoring-required mode when the mode transition occurs. The presentation control unit is configured to perform the information presentation at an earlier timing when the monitoring interruption mode is transitioned to the hands-free prohibited state than when the monitoring interruption mode is transitioned to the hands-free permitted state.

A presentation control apparatus is configured to control information presentation to a driver of a vehicle capable of performing automated driving. The presentation control apparatus includes a judging section and a presentation control section. The judging section is configured to distinguish between a particular action permitted state where the driver is permitted to take a particular action other than driving during the automated driving, a particular action prohibited state where the driver is prohibited to take the particular action during the automated driving, and an automated driving prohibited state where the automated driving is prohibited. The presentation control section is configured to present first transition information related to a transition from the automated driving prohibited state to the particular action permitted state in an emphasized form compared to second transition information related to a transition from the particular action prohibited state to the particular action permitted state.

A vehicle may be operated in a driving mode with autonomous lateral control and in a driving mode with manual lateral control, where the vehicle has a steering lever with a steering lever range, and where the steering lever range represents a circular space which is delimited about 360° by a rotational movement of the steering lever about a steering lever axis of rotation. A method associated with the vehicle may include one or more of the following steps: operating the vehicle in a driving mode with autonomous lateral control; detecting an intrusion in the steering lever range and/or a breaching of a predefined distance from the steering lever range by the vehicle occupant or another object with a sensor unit without the vehicle occupant coming into contact with the steering lever; and signaling the intrusion and/or the breaching of the distance to the vehicle occupant.

The disclosure relates collecting feedback from passengers of autonomous vehicles. For instance, that a triggering circumstance for triggering a feedback request has been met may be determined. The triggering circumstance may include a driving event, a presence of other road users, or a trip state. A display requirement and data collection parameters for the feedback request are identified based on the determination. The display requirement defines when the feedback request is displayed and the data collection parameters identify information that the feedback request is to collect. The feedback request is provided for display based on the display requirement and data collection parameters. In response, feedback from a passenger of the autonomous vehicle is received and stored for later use.

A method for controlling a vehicle, an electronic device, a storage medium, and a vehicle are provided, related to a field of artificial intelligence technology, in particular to a field of autonomous driving and a field of computer vision. The method for controlling a vehicle includes: determining, in response to a request of switching to an autonomous driving mode, whether the vehicle is in a safe state; and controlling, in response to the vehicle being in the safe state, the vehicle to switch from a manual driving mode to the autonomous driving mode during travelling.

Embodiments described herein may provide a method for generating a local hazard warning boundary and at least one confidence band therein. Methods may include: receiving a plurality of probe data points from a plurality of probes within a region, where each probe data point includes location information and an indication of a hazardous condition; generating, based on the plurality of probe data points, a boundary within the region identifying an area within which the hazardous condition is determined to exist with at least a first degree of confidence; generating, based on the plurality of probe data points, a confidence band within the boundary within which the hazardous condition is determined to exist with a second degree of confidence; and providing for an indication of the boundary and the confidence band to at least one of an autonomous vehicle control or to a driver assistance system.

To implement a configuration to calculate a manual driving recoverable time required for a driver who is executing automatic driving in order to achieve a requested recovery ratio (RRR) for each road section, and issue a manual driving recovery request notification on the basis of the calculated time. A data processing unit is included, which calculates a manual driving recoverable time required for a driver who is executing automatic driving in order to achieve a predefined requested recovery ratio (RRR) from automatic driving to manual driving and determines notification timing of a manual driving recovery request notification on the basis of the calculated time. The data processing unit acquires the requested recovery ratio (RRR) for each road section set as ancillary information of a local dynamic map (LDM), and calculates the manual driving recoverable time for each road section scheduled to travel, using learning data for each driver.

An accelerator device includes a pedal lever, a reaction force adjuster and a controller. The pedal lever operates according to a stepping operation. The reaction force adjuster is driven by an actuator, and is capable of adjusting a reaction force that is a force in a direction of pushing back the pedal lever. The controller includes a target operation amount setting unit and a drive control unit. The target operation amount setting unit sets a target operation amount, which is an operation amount of the pedal lever according to a vehicle speed. The drive control unit controls a drive of the actuator. The controller controls the reaction force according to the target operation amount so that the operation amount of the pedal lever is within a target range when switching from an automatic drive to a manual drive.