An agricultural sprayer includes a computing system configured to receive a first input associated with a target application rate at which agricultural fluid is to be dispensed onto the field. Moreover, the computing system is configured to receive a second input associated with a turn being made or to be made by the sprayer. Additionally, the computing system is configured to determine a maximum ground speed for the turn at which a selected nozzle dispenses the agricultural fluid onto the field at the target application rate based on the received first and second inputs. Furthermore, when the turn is being made, the computing system is configured to control an operation of the sprayer such that the ground speed of the sprayer is at or below the determined maximum ground speed.

A road surface information providing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit, a road surface condition estimation unit, a risk map generation unit, and a transmission unit. The information acquisition unit acquires vehicle information from at least one vehicle with a wheel detected as being idling among vehicles that are traveling in a predetermined region, and acquire weather information about a surrounding area around the at least one vehicle. The predetermined region includes the surrounding area around the at least one vehicle. The road surface condition estimation unit generates road surface information about an estimated condition of a road surface in the predetermined region on the basis of the vehicle information and the weather information. The risk map generation unit generates a risk map in which the road surface information is correlated with map information. The transmission unit transmits the risk map to the vehicles traveling in the predetermined region.

A method for providing data for a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle includes communicating position data concerning a position of the motor vehicle to the driver assistance system, requesting additional information from a server if the driver assistance system requires additional information with respect to the position data, and communicating, in response to the requesting, the additional information from the server to the driver assistance system.

A vehicle with a hybrid drivetrain including a fuel-fed engine coupled to a first drive axle, an electric motor coupled to a second drive axle and an APU for providing electrical power at stopover locations, and further including a controller for determining a location of the vehicle, a location of a stopover location, determining a target SOC of a battery for operating the APU at the stopover location and operating a hybrid control system to provide the target SOC for the vehicle at the stopover location.

In an apparatus for assisting a turn of a vehicle at an intersection, a turn-signal state detection unit is configured to detect an operating state of a turn signal of the vehicle. A road information detection unit is configured to detect road information that is information regarding a road on which the vehicle is traveling. A determination unit is configured to, using at least one of the detected operating state of the turn signal and the detected road information, determine whether or not the vehicle will make a turn at the intersection.

A method for correcting a travelling trajectory of a vehicle which is executed by a processor includes: generating a subject vehicle travelling route that a subject vehicle travels based on map information stored in a database; calculating a travelling trajectory of the subject vehicle to be a target trajectory when the subject vehicle travels on the subject vehicle travelling route; detecting a position of another vehicle travelling on a lane located in a width direction of the subject vehicle by a sensor provided for the subject vehicle; calculating an offset of a position of the other vehicle in another vehicle lane that the other vehicle travels based on the position of the other vehicle; and correcting the travelling trajectory of the subject vehicle in accordance with the offset.

In a vehicle control system (1, 101), a control unit (15) is configured to execute a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop position located within a permitted distance when it is detected that the control unit or the driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and, in executing the stop process, the control unit computes an agreement between an object (X) contained in the map information based on an estimated position of the vehicle and an object (Y) on the road detected by an external environment recognition device (6), the permitted distance being smaller when the agreement is below a prescribed agreement threshold than when the agreement is equal to or above the agreement threshold.

A method for processing friction data for vehicle tires on road segments, implemented by a processing system including at least one computer and an interface for remote communication with a plurality of vehicles, the method including: acquiring, from the plurality of vehicles, friction data for tires of the vehicles on a plurality of road segments, each friction datum including at least: a maximum coefficient of friction available to the vehicle on the road segment, and information relating to the road segment; establishing, for each road segment, a distribution of the friction data obtained from the plurality of vehicles for the road segment; and determining a plurality of road types, each road type comprising a set of road segments, from a measurement of similarity between the distributions of friction data obtained for each road segment.

A method for automatically reactivating a lane departure warning and/or lane keeping driver assistance system of a vehicle, comprising deactivating the system at a deactivation time point; identifying a first road condition which is associated with the deactivation time point when the system is being deactivated, wherein the first road condition is indicative of a driving situation when the driver wants the system to be deactivated; setting a reactivation threshold value, wherein the reactivation threshold value is set based on the identified first road condition and defines a limit for when the first road condition no longer applies; and automatically reactivating the system when it is determined that the reactivation threshold value is reached. The invention also relates to a vehicle control unit and to a vehicle.

An information processing server is configured to acquire target vehicle data having traveling conditions of target vehicles and position information of the target vehicles on a map, recognize, based on the target vehicle data, an unstable behavior position on the map where at least one of the target vehicles exhibits unstable behavior, measure an occurrence count of the unstable behavior positions within a predetermined period in a mesh preset on the map, enlarge the mesh to include the unstable behavior positions within the predetermined period such that the occurrence count of the unstable behavior positions is equal to or larger than a first threshold, and store the mesh and the unstable behavior positions of the mesh in a storage database related to each other.