The present disclosure relates to adaptive cruise control in the field of automatic driving, and discloses a vehicle control method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium. A specific implementation is: firstly, determining a target travelling scenario according to real-time monitoring data upon fulfilment of a preset update condition; then, determining a target time headway according to the target travelling scenario, where the target time headway is used to dynamically adjust a relative motion state between an host vehicle and a surrounding vehicle; and finally, controlling a vehicle according to the target time headway. It solves the problem of the prior art in overemphasizing the state of the vehicle ahead for automatic driving control while overlooking the perception of the driver or passenger of the host vehicle in the travelling scenario can prompt the driver to manually intervene, compromising the experience of the automatic driving.

A calculation method and apparatus for calculating a starting point for acceleration/deceleration operation of a vehicle with high accuracy using more input values while at the same time keeping calculation cost and time to a minimum is disclosed herein. An ECU making up a system calculates a start point for acceleration/deceleration operation of a vehicle on the basis of traveling condition information that changes as the vehicle travels and vehicle information that changes only slightly as a result of the travel of the vehicle. As a result, if the driver maintains a throttle operator at a given opening angle or more at a point before the start point, an actuator applies a force in the direction of closing a throttle valve to the throttle operator, thereby notifying the driver that the vehicle is close to the start point.

An apparatus (100) for determining an attention requirement level of a driver of a vehicle is provided, which comprises a first signal processing unit (101), a second signal processing unit (104), a third signal processing unit (107), a fourth signal processing unit (110), and an attention requirement determination unit (113), connected to the first, second, third and fourth signal processing unit (101, 104, 107, 110) and configured to determine an attention requirement level (114) as a function of current values of the first, second, third and fourth attention requirement parameters (103, 106, 109, 112). In addition, a vehicle (200) having such an apparatus (100) and an operating method (300) for the apparatus (100) are provided.

An automated driving system and method of autonomously driving a vehicle. The system includes for a vehicle including at least one sensor device configured to detect the vehicle position and sense environment characteristics of the vehicle, an electronic control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle based on an output of the sensor device, in which the controlling of autonomous driving includes an autonomous overtaking functionality for overtaking by changing the lane, and disable the autonomous overtaking functionality, in case at least one of a set of predetermined overtaking conditions is not satisfied.

A control apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes a driving motor configured to drive the vehicle by outputting motor torque based on a supply voltage from a battery, and an engine configured to drive the vehicle by outputting engine torque. The control apparatus may acquire driving mode data which is calculated based on traffic information from the current position to the destination of the vehicle and dimension information of the vehicle, and control the vehicle to drive to the destination according to a driving mode which is determined by applying a travelling condition of the vehicle to the acquired driving mode data, where the power distribution ratio of the motor torque to the engine torque is reflected in the driving mode data.

A system may include sensors that may acquire health data related to an individual. The system may also include a processor that may receive trip data associated with a current location of the individual and a destination location for the individual, traffic condition data associated with routes between the current location and the destination location, and weather related data associated with the routes. The processor may also receive the health data from the sensors and determine whether the individual is associated with a driver assessment score above a threshold based on the trip data, the traffic condition data, the weather data, the health data, or any combination thereof. The processor may then send an activation signal to a vehicle control system in response to the driver assessment score being above the threshold, such that the activation signal may enable the vehicle control system to control operations of a vehicle.

A method of controlling a vehicle includes acquiring biometric data of a user in the vehicle, determining first determination information related to inattention of the user based on the biometric data, acquiring driving related information of the vehicle, determining second determination information related to driving complexity based on the driving related information, and determining whether to provide a feedback function to the user based on the first determination information and the second determination information.

The invention provides a speed control system and method for a hybrid electric vehicle, the vehicle having an engine (121), an electric machine (123) and a mode switch (169), to allow switching between a first speed control mode (EV) and a second speed control mode (HEV). When the control system is in the first mode and at least one of a prescribed one or more conditions is met, e.g. a rate of acceleration demanded by the driver or a difference between a target vehicle speed and a current vehicle speed exceeds a respective prescribed threshold value, the system is operable to not limit operation of the vehicle to the EV mode.

A driver assistance system is provided in a motor vehicle, which driver assistance system executes at least active transverse guidance interventions. The driver assistance system can be activated while decoupled from the activation of a longitudinal control system but can also be active both, with and without longitudinal control, and includes both a traffic jam assistance sub-function and a track guiding assistant sub-function. The two sub-functions can be jointly activated and deactivated by a single on-/off-button. The driver assistance system is characterized by a special combination of the sub-functions track guiding assistance and traffic jam assistance. They each take turns depending on the presence of conditions, which are defined differently for each sub-function.

A method for operating a navigation system for a motor vehicle with autopilot is disclosed, wherein the autopilot is designed to automatically carry out longitudinal and lateral guidance of the motor vehicle in the activated state during a piloted journey without assistance from a driver. The navigation system determines, for a destination prescribed by the user, a route to the destination on the basis of navigation data. The roads on which the activation of the autopilot is likely to be possible is determined using traffic data and on the basis of a predetermined activation condition for the autopilot.