A method for on-board diagnosis in a vehicle includes a) determining whether one or more release conditions for starting an on-board diagnosis are met; b) when it is determined that at least one release condition of the one or more release conditions is not met, controlling at least one driving function in such a manner that at least one release condition is met; and c) starting the on-board diagnosis.

In a method of controlling an electronic parking brake system to overcome an existing problem occurring in drive away release (DAR) mode, a control unit monitors whether or not a gear change signal is input in a vehicle stopped state, a P position state, or a parking brake applied state. When the gear change signal is input, an accelerator pedal input value of a driver is compared with a predetermined pedal input set value while a gear position of a transmission is maintained in the P position. When the accelerator pedal input value does not exceed the predetermined pedal input set value, a control operation is performed for automatic releasing of a parking brake. When a set time has passed after start of the control operation for the automatic releasing, a control operation of changing the gear position to the D position or the R position is performed.

A vehicle control device includes a specific scene determination unit, a specific operation determination unit, a function-off unit, and a threshold value setting unit. The specific scene determination unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle is in a specific scene. The specific operation determination unit is configured to determine whether a driver of the vehicle performed a specific operation. The function-off unit is configured to turn off at least one of functions of the automated driving when the specific scene determination unit determines that the vehicle is in the specific scene and the specific operation determination unit determines that the driver performed the specific operation. The specific operation includes an operation on the accelerator pedal with a depression amount exceeding an accelerator threshold value. The threshold value setting unit is configured to set the accelerator threshold value depending on a scene where the vehicle is traveling.

A vehicle display control device includes: a driving mode acquisition section that acquires information on which of a manual driving mode or an autonomous driving mode is a driving mode; an operation intervention detection section that, in a case in which the driving mode acquired by the driving mode acquisition section is the autonomous driving mode, detects a driving operation intervention by the vehicle occupant; and a display control section that displays vicinity information of the vehicle at a display unit provided at a vehicle cabin at least in a case in which the driving mode acquired by the driving mode acquisition section is the autonomous driving mode, wherein, in a case in which a driving operation intervention is detected by the operation intervention detection section, the display control section changes background information of the vicinity information and displays the background information at the display unit.

A work machine includes a frame; an engine supported by the frame; a plurality of ground engaging devices supporting the frame and driven by the engine; an operator cabin supported by the frame; a plurality of sensors and input devices configured to provide a plurality of signals; and a control module. The control module is configured to receive the plurality of signals from the plurality of sensors and input devices, determine if any of the plurality of signals is a positive signal, where a positive signal indicates that an operator is present in the machine, indicate an ‘operator present’ status if at least one of the plurality of signals remains positive for a debounce time, and indicate a ‘no operator present’ status if none of the plurality of signals remains positive for a threshold time.

A control system has at least one electronic control unit for controlling an internal combustion engine in a hybrid vehicle, which records at least the vehicle speed and the driver's desired driving performance and the driving performance specified by a safety control system or a driver assistance system. The control unit is designed such that, below a pre-defined vehicle speed threshold and/or in the event of recognition of an urban area, while in a purely electric driving mode, it only engages the internal combustion engine when the current desired driving performance exceeds a pre-defined upper threshold, preferably once the maximum tractive force at the wheel for purely electric driving is at least reached.

The invention provides to a method for controlling a vehicle (1) with an internal combustion engine (2) and a transmission (3), the transmission being arranged to automatically provide shifts between a plurality of gear ratios between the engine and at least one driven wheel (5) of the vehicle, characterized by the steps of: —registering (S1, S108) a decrease of a demanded torque from an engine control input device (8) of the vehicle, —controlling (S2, S109) in response to the demanded torque decrease the rotational speed of the engine so as to not be below a rotational speed threshold value which is above an idle speed of the engine, and where said rotational speed threshold value is determined so as for a transmission gear down shift to be avoided.

The vehicle control apparatus is provided with a vehicle body speed deriving portion that derives a vehicle body speed of a vehicle, a wheel speed difference deriving portion that derives a wheel speed difference which is a deviation between the maximum wheel speed and the minimum wheel speed of the wheels of the vehicle, a request drive amount deriving portion that derives a request drive amount for the drive source of the vehicle, a torque suppressing device that suppresses torque of a driving wheel, a traction control portion that controls the torque suppressing device and suppresses an acceleration slip of the driving wheel based on the wheel speed difference or a combination of the wheel speed difference and at least one of the vehicle body speed and the request drive amount.

Embodiments are disclosed for an automatic identification of a driver. In one example, an in-vehicle computing system of a vehicle includes a sensor interface communicatively coupled to one or more data collection devices, a processor, and a storage device storing instructions executable by the processor to generate a two-dimensional current driver profile matrix for a current driver of the vehicle, the current driver profile matrix indicating a vehicle operating status in terms of a pair of driving parameters at sampled times during a current vehicle trip, and determine a probability that the current driver is one of a plurality of known drivers by comparing the current driver profile matrix to one or more stored driver profile matrices associated with the plurality of known drivers.

A brake controller operates PTC when an obstacle sensor detects an obstacle ahead, a vehicle speed sensor detects a vehicle speed equal to or lower than a predetermined vehicle speed, and an operation of an accelerator pedal equal to or greater than a predetermined depression amount is detected. When detection of the obstacle ahead is lost while the PTC is operating and the PTC is to be cancelled, the brake controller operates a power limiting control if a depression operation of the accelerator pedal is detected. The power limiting control limits an engine power to cause acceleration to be lower than a requested acceleration corresponding to a depression amount of the accelerator pedal.