An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to perform safe driving operations. An example method includes detecting that a motorcycle is operating on a roadway on which the autonomous vehicle is located. The method further includes classifying a behavior state of the motorcycle based on a location of the motorcycle relative to a split zone that extends between and into two adjacent lanes of the roadway. The behavior state indicates whether the motorcycle is lane splitting. The method further includes determining, based on the behavior state of the motorcycle, a lane permission parameter that controls whether a given trajectory for the autonomous vehicle can extend into one of the two adjacent lanes. The method further includes causing the autonomous vehicle to operate in accordance with a trajectory that satisfies the lane permission parameter based on transmitting instructions related to the trajectory to subsystems of the autonomous vehicle.

A travel control method comprises: detecting a travelable road area of the road area in which the subject vehicle can travel; generating a potential field in a space of the travelable road area in which a potential value of a left-side boundary line and a right-side boundary line are set to different values from each other; calculating a travelable road area width by applying the Potential Method; comparing the difference between a lateral position of a travel route set on the basis of the calculated travelable road area width and a lateral position of the travel route set in advance in the travelable road area on the basis of the left-side boundary line or the right-side boundary line; correcting the potential value; regenerating the potential field set to the corrected potential value; generating the travel route applying the Potential Method to the regenerated potential field; executing autonomous travel control.

A driving assistance method for operating a vehicle includes establishing a database, wherein the database includes pre-stores keywords, the keywords are defined as words related to traffic; obtaining electronic texts of traffic rules; extracting keywords in the electronic texts according to the database; generating a trigger condition based on the extracted keywords; obtaining a plurality of current driving parameters of the vehicle; and sending a driving assistance command when the current driving parameters satisfy the trigger condition. The invention also provides a vehicle using the driving assistance method.

The described techniques relate to coordinating and managing faults of systems of a vehicle, such as an autonomous vehicle, to enable the vehicle to respond safely and appropriately to the faults. In examples, a centralized fault monitor system receives faults from different vehicle systems, maps the received faults to associated fault constraints, prioritizes different and shared parameters between the fault constraints, and communicates the constraint parameters to appropriate vehicle systems accordingly.

An automatic driving control system includes: an automatic driving vehicle; and a server device connected to the automatic driving vehicle via a telecommunication line. Further, the server device includes a database storing information about vehicle driving characteristics of each of areas, and a control unit that, in a case where it is determined, based on position information of the automatic driving vehicle acquired via the telecommunication line, that the automatic driving vehicle is located within an area stored in the database, controls an operation of the automatic driving vehicle, based on the information about the vehicle driving characteristics of the area stored in the database.

A method for operating a control device of a motor vehicle driving by automation. The method includes determining a location of the motor vehicle, and acquiring driving-environment data of the motor vehicle, a control characteristic of the control device of the motor vehicle being formed in such a way that a driving behavior of at least one other road user is influenced in defined manner.

A device includes one or more processors configured to obtain an image of a traffic sign, analyze the image to determine a traffic sign information, identify a verification information based on the traffic sign information, and verify the validity of the traffic sign information. Wherein verifying the validity of the traffic sign information includes: comparing the verification information to a further verification information, and determining whether the verification information is the same as the further verification information. Wherein the one or more processors are further configured to generate an instruction based on the determination. Wherein the one or more processors are further configured to obtain a further image of the traffic sign, and analyze the further image to determine a further traffic sign information, wherein the further traffic sign information includes the further verification information.

A system, a method, and a computer readable medium for communicating vehicle-specific policy to autonomous vehicles are provided herein. The method may include the following steps: storing, sensing and transmitting to the cellular communication network, data associated with autonomous vehicles; maintaining a set of rules for operational parameters of the autonomous vehicles, applying the data associated with the autonomous vehicles for each respective autonomous vehicle to the policy database, to yield a vehicle-specific configuration command; and generating a vehicle-specific configuration command to be sent to the respective autonomous vehicle, that when reaches the autonomous vehicle, configures the autonomous vehicles into one of a plurality of operational configurations.

A control unit for a vehicle is configured to detect a signalling installation ahead, wherein the signalling installation has at least one signal transmitter. The control unit is configured to ascertain digital map information indicating and/or allowing an association between the at least one signal transmitter and at least one possible direction of travel of the vehicle at the signalling installation. The control unit is further configured to operate a driving function of the vehicle on the basis of the digital map information.

A device for assisting in the driving of a motor vehicle includes a line detector for detecting the boundary line of a traffic lane, a setup module capable of establishing a virtual lane from the line detected, a monitoring module capable of monitoring the risk of the motor vehicle leaving the virtual lane established. The device also includes a module for acquiring an image representing a relevant object. The setup module includes a first map containing values of a position of a virtual-lane boundary according to a lateral shift of the relevant object in the acquired image.