Systems, apparatus and methods to implement sectional design (e.g., in quadrants) of an autonomous vehicle may include modular construction techniques to assemble an autonomous vehicle from multiple structural sections. The multiple structural sections may be configured to implement radial and bilateral symmetry. A structural section based configuration may include a power supply configuration (e.g., using rechargeable batteries) including a double-backed power supply system. The power supply system may include a kill switch disposed on a power supply (e.g., at an end of a rechargeable battery). The kill switch may be configured to disable the power supply system in the event of an emergency or after a collision, for example. The radial and bilateral symmetry may provide for bi-directional driving operations of the autonomous vehicle as the vehicle may not have a designated front end or a back end.

A safe-to-proceed system for operating an automated vehicle proximate to an intersection includes an intersection-detector, a vehicle-detector, and a controller. The intersection-detector is suitable for use on a host-vehicle. The intersection-detector is used to determine when a host-vehicle is proximate to an intersection. The vehicle-detector is also suitable for use on the host-vehicle. The vehicle-detector is used to estimate a stopping-distance of an other-vehicle approaching the intersection. The controller is in communication with the intersection-detector and the vehicle-detector. The controller is configured to prevent the host-vehicle from entering the intersection when the stopping-distance indicates that the other-vehicle will enter the intersection before stopping.

The present application discloses an intelligent driving system with an embedded driver model. The system includes a driver model module that can tune vehicle performances according to driving characteristics of a driver and road environment. Applying the system provided by the present application to vehicle control systems, the driver's visual and tactile information may be taken into account when driving a vehicle, so as to tune vehicle performances to allow the vehicle to adapt itself to the individual driver.

A handover notification arrangement is configured to provide a handover notification in a driver environment of a vehicle having autonomous driving capabilities. The handover notification arrangement includes a road information arrangement configured to acquire road information representative of an upcoming road section at which the autonomous driving is likely to become at least partially disabled. The handover notification arrangement further includes a processing unit configured to calculate an estimated time available for autonomous driving and configured to calculate an uncertainty estimate of the estimated time available for autonomous driving. The handover notification arrangement is configured to cause the output unit to provide the handover notification such that the handover notification is provided earlier in cases of high uncertainty estimates than in cases of low uncertainty estimates. The present disclosure also describes a vehicle and a method of providing a handover notification.

In a case where automatic lane change control is performed, a traveling lane and another lane as a lane change destination are displayed on a display unit based on lane change information, and a guide indication of a lane change starting position or a lane change finishing position is displayed on the displayed traveling lane or the displayed another lane.

Systems and methods use cameras to provide autonomous navigation features. In one implementation, a method for navigating a user vehicle may include acquiring, using at least one image capture device, a plurality of images of an area in a vicinity of the user vehicle; determining from the plurality of images a first lane constraint on a first side of the user vehicle and a second lane constraint on a second side of the user vehicle opposite to the first side of the user vehicle; enabling the user vehicle to pass a target vehicle if the target vehicle is determined to be in a lane different from the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling; and causing the user vehicle to abort the pass before completion of the pass, if the target vehicle is determined to be entering the lane in which the user vehicle is traveling.

Disclosed is a vehicle. The vehicle comprises: storage in which a plurality of reference images and position information corresponding to respective plurality of reference images are stored; and a processor which acquires through a camera an image of the surrounding environment in which the vehicle is traveling, acquires a reference image corresponding to the current position of the vehicle among the plurality of reference images if the visibility of the surrounding environment image satisfies a predetermined condition, acquires an image in which the surrounding environment image and the reference image are merged, and controls the operation of the vehicle on the basis of the merged image.

A location of a light source outside a field of view of a polarimetric image of a vehicle interior can be determined. Then, upon (a) determining, based on the polarimetric image, that the light source is other than vehicle lighting or an exterior source and (b) detecting a vehicle occupant, a vehicle actuator can be actuated based on a determined location of the light source.

An electronic device configured to control a host vehicle includes: an image sensor configured to photograph a surrounding environment of the host vehicle; and a processor configured to perform an image processing operation based on a first image captured by the image sensor, and control the host vehicle based on the processing result, wherein the processor determines whether to use a high speed performance of the image processing operation based on a speed of the host vehicle, and the electronic device is configured such that when the high speed performance is not used, the processor performs the image processing operation by using a first image processing module, and when the high speed performance is used, the processor performs the image processing operation by using a second image processing module having less data throughput than the first image processing module.

While operating a vehicle, a candidate marker is detected via first image data from a first image sensor. Upon failing to identify the candidate marker, vehicle exterior lighting is actuated to illuminate the candidate marker. Then the candidate marker is determined to be one of a real marker or a projected marker based on determining whether the candidate marker is detected via second image data from the first image sensor. Upon determining the candidate marker is the real marker, the vehicle is operated based on the real marker.