A method and a system analyze the control of a vehicle having an autonomous driving unit. A change in the driving mode from autonomous driving to manual driving is detected, and at least one driving parameter before and/or after detecting the change is monitored. Based on driving values obtained by the monitoring with respect to the detected change in driving mode, at least one driving quantity quantifying the quality of interplay between the autonomous driving unit and a human driver is determined.

An override conciliating portion executes processing to conciliate an override request during an execution of automated driving control (i.e., override conciliation processing). In the override conciliation processing, it is determined whether or not there is the override request (step S20). If the determination result of the step S20 is positive, it is determined whether or not a second automated driving mode is selected as an operation mode (step S21). If the determination result of the step S21 is negative, acceptance processing of the override request is executed (step S22). If the determination result of the step S21 is positive, invalidation processing of the override request is executed (step S23).

An automated driving enabled vehicle includes a travel controller, an automated driving indicator lamp, and a lamp controller. The travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by automated driving in a normal movement mode and in an automatic parking mode. The normal movement mode includes allowing the vehicle to travel, and the automatic parking mode includes parking the vehicle by the automated driving in a parking lot. The lamp controller controls a lighting state of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving to a first lighting state in the normal movement mode, and to a second lighting state different from the first lighting state in the automatic parking mode.

A vehicle control apparatus that comprises a first control unit and a second control unit each configured to perform travel control of a vehicle, a first communication line configured to connect the first control unit and the second control unit, a second communication line configured to connect the first control unit and an operation unit configured to operate based on a control signal transmitted from one of the first control unit and the second control unit, and a third communication line configured to connect the operation unit and the second control unit. The vehicle control apparatus further comprises a fourth communication line configured to connect the first control unit and the operation unit.

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.

The information processing server includes an unstable behavior position recognition unit configured to recognize an unstable behavior position being a position on a map, at which the target vehicle has performed an unstable behavior, based on the target vehicle data, a support target vehicle determination unit configured to, when the unstable behavior position recognition unit recognizes the unstable behavior position, determine whether or not there is a support target vehicle, based on the unstable behavior position and the target vehicle data, the support target vehicle being the target vehicle estimated to perform the unstable behavior at the unstable behavior position within a predetermined time, and a vehicle support unit configured to, when the support target vehicle determination unit determines that there is the support target vehicle, perform, on the support target vehicle, a vehicle support for suppressing performing of the unstable behavior at the unstable behavior position.

Autonomous driving systems and methods for a vehicle include a driver intent determination system configured to determine a driver intent for which of two different lanes the driver intends the vehicle to follow during a lane split scenario and a controller configured to operate the vehicle according to an autonomous driving feature whereby the controller automatically controls steering of the vehicle, determine which of the two different lanes are supported for the autonomous driving feature, determine which of the two different lanes that the vehicle will follow during the lane split scenario based at least on the determined driver intent and which of the two different lanes are supported for the autonomous driving feature to obtain a target lane, and automatically control at least the steering system of the vehicle to follow the target lane.

An integrated control device provided on an autonomous vehicle may include an operating portion by which the acceleration, braking, steering, and shifting operations are input and a core controller coupled to the operating portion to control the acceleration, braking, steering, and shifting operations. A user selects a single operating portion from among a plurality of operating portions of various types according to his or her preference and couples the core controller to the selected operating portion for use.

An apparatus and a method for controlling an autonomous vehicle depending on weather are provided. The apparatus obtains information including at least one of an image around the autonomous vehicle, sensing information of a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) of the autonomous vehicle, sensing information of a rain sensor of the autonomous vehicle, an operation state of a windshield wiper of the autonomous vehicle, climate information through vehicle to everything (V2X) communication, an acceleration of the autonomous vehicle, or wheel sensor information of the autonomous vehicle and determines whether the climate state is an inclement weather state, based on the information including the at least one of the image around the autonomous vehicle, the sensing information of the LIDAR, the sensing information of the rain sensor, the operation state of the windshield wiper, the climate information through the V2X communication, the acceleration, or the wheel sensor information.

A vehicle controller device includes a first processor. The first processor is configured to acquire biometric information of an occupant, in cases in which the compromised state is determined to have arisen, to communicate check-up information to check the well-being of the occupant using a report device provided inside the vehicle, to receive a response from the occupant whose well-being is being checked, to notify switchover information to an operation device in order to switch the vehicle from manual driving to remote driving in which the vehicle travels based on operation information in cases in which the response has not been received, and to perform the remote driving in cases in which the switchover information has been received by the operation device and operation-ready information indicating that the remote driving is possible has subsequently been received from the operation device.