A vehicle control device that controls traveling of a vehicle, the vehicle control device comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information of a periphery of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to, based on the information that the acquisition unit acquired, determine whether or not another vehicle, which travels in one of a plurality of traffic lanes of a merging path that merges into a traffic lane that the vehicle is traveling in, will merge into the traffic lane, and based on the determination, control travel of the vehicle.

A lane departure suppression device including a control unit that executes a lane departure suppression control (automatic steering of the steering wheel and/or a warning being issued) when it is determined that there is a possibility that a vehicle departs from a lane. The control unit does not execute the lane departure suppression control when the control unit determines that a lateral speed and a lateral acceleration of the vehicle are increased within a predetermined time from a time point at which acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle is started, and that there is an adjacent lane on a side with respect to the lane in which the lateral speed and the lateral acceleration are increased.

Disclosed are a vehicle capable of controlling acceleration in consideration of a driving environment and an acceleration limit control method therefor. The acceleration limit control method of the disclosure includes determining a base value of an acceleration limit level, which is classified into a plurality of levels, determining a first correction value based on manipulation of an accelerator pedal, determining a second correction value based on a driving environment, determining a final acceleration limit level by applying the first correction value and the second correction value to the base value, and determining a limit acceleration based on the final acceleration limit level.

A vehicle control apparatus starts driving trouble tackling control designed to decelerate and stop an own vehicle when it is determined that a driver is in a driving trouble state where the driver has trouble driving the own vehicle, then start a deceleration process at a predetermined timing as a process of driving trouble tackling control, and then start a hazard lighting process at a predetermined timing as another process of driving trouble tackling control. The vehicle control apparatus stops driving trouble tackling control when a hazard switch is operated during the performance of the hazard lighting process, and starts the hazard lighting process without stopping the driving trouble tackling control when the hazard switch is operated between a timing when it is determined that the driver is in the driving trouble state and a timing when the hazard lighting process is started.

In one embodiment, a number of speed control rate candidates are determined for a speed control command of operating an autonomous vehicle. For each of the speed control rate candidates, a number of individual costs are calculated for the speed control rate candidate by applying a plurality of cost functions, each cost function corresponding to one of a plurality of cost categories. A total cost for the speed control rate candidate is determined based on the individual costs produced by the cost functions. One of the speed control rate candidates having a lowest total cost is selected as a target speed control rate. A speed control command is generated based on the selected speed control rate candidate to control a speed of the autonomous vehicle.

An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to comply with applicable regulations and statues for performing safe driving operation. An example method for operating an AV includes receiving, by a computer located in the AV, sensor data that indicates a condition of one or more devices in the AV or of a roadway on which the autonomous vehicle is operating; and causing, by the computer and based on the sensor data, the autonomous vehicle to operate in accordance with a maneuver by sending instructions to one or more devices in the autonomous vehicle, wherein the maneuver is configured to bring the autonomous vehicle to a complete stop. In some embodiments, the maneuver may be selected from a plurality of maneuvers in response to determining an occurrence of a fault condition based on the sensor data.

The invention relates to a method for an automated starting of a means of transport (80) at a light-signal system (70), comprising: recording an image of the light-signal system (70) by means of a first optical sensor (30) of the means of transport (80), determining a signaling state of the light-signal system (70) by means of the recorded image, executing an automated starting process of the means of transport (80) in response to a signaling state representing and/or announcing a travel clearance, determining a user action of a driver of the means of transport (80) for plausibility checking of the starting process, and depending on a result of the plausibility check, automatically continuing or terminating of the starting process.

A longitudinally guiding driver assistance system in a motor vehicle has a first detection system for detecting currently applying events or relevant events lying ahead, which require a change of the permissible maximum speed, a second detection system for detecting the course of the route, and a function unit which, when detecting a relevant event while taking into account the location of the relevant event, determines a location-dependent point in time, whose reaching causes the function unit to initiate an automatic adaptation of the currently permissible maximum speed or an output of a prompt information for permitting an automatic adaptation of the currently permissible maximum speed to anew permissible maximum speed. The function unit is designed to take into account available information concerning the course of the route when determining the location-dependent point in time.

An intersection start judgment device judges whether to start an own vehicle at an intersection at which vehicles in all directions need to temporarily stop. The device includes an autonomous sensor, a driving environment recognizer, a locator, and a controller. The autonomous sensor is disposed on the own vehicle and configured to detect a driving environment in front of the own vehicle. The driving environment recognizer is configured to recognize, with the autonomous sensor, the driving environment of the own vehicle. The locator is configured to calculate a location of the own vehicle with map information and a global navigation satellite system; and a controller configured to give, in a case where the own vehicle stopped temporarily at the intersection, start permission to the own vehicle when the number, counted by the driving environment recognizer, of other vehicles that are already stopping at the intersection becomes zero by subtraction counting.

The present invention relates to a method for operating a driver model for controlling a vehicle. The driver model comprises a vehicle module (203) which determines an accelerator pedal position to be set on the vehicle. In addition, the vehicle module (203) determines a required power as a component of a total power, which total power can be generated by a drive system of the vehicle, wherein the required power corresponds to a power that is necessary for moving the vehicle at a required speed and/or a required acceleration (311) along a predefined road course. The method according to the invention further provides for a value (313) of a permissible pedal position to be assigned to the required power and for the value (313) of the permissible pedal position to be transmitted to the driver model in order to control the vehicle.