A method for determining a dynamic vehicle distance between a following vehicle and a preceding vehicle of a platoon, wherein a V2V signal is configured to be transmitted in a wireless manner between the following vehicle and the preceding vehicle, includes determining a current maximum following vehicle deceleration of the following vehicle, determining a current transmission time for transmitting information from the preceding vehicle to the following vehicle, determining a current maximum preceding vehicle deceleration of the preceding vehicle, and determining the dynamic vehicle distance comprising a transmission distance and a braking distance difference. The transmission distance indicates a distance traveled by the following vehicle between the preceding vehicle initiating an emergency braking procedure and the following vehicle initiating an emergency braking procedure. The transmission distance is dependent upon the current transmission time.

Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for controlling an inter-vehicle distance. Particularly, the apparatus for controlling an inter-vehicle distance may include one or more sensors, configured to detect one or more forward targets in front of a host vehicle, and a controller, configured to control the host vehicle to drive while maintaining a predetermined first inter-vehicle distance from a first target that drives on the driving road of the host vehicle. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, there are provided an apparatus and a method for controlling an inter-vehicle distance, which may more stably perform longitudinal control of a host vehicle while the host vehicle drives.

A movable carrier auxiliary system includes an environment detecting device, a state detecting device, and a control device. The environment detecting device includes at least one image capturing module and an operation module. The image capturing module captures an environment image in a traveling direction of the movable carrier. The operation module detects whether there is at least one of a target carrier and a lane marking in the environment image captured in the traveling direction for generating a detection signal. The state detecting device detects a moving state of the movable carrier and generating a state signal. The control device continuously receives the detection signal and the state signal, and controls the movable carrier to follow the target carrier or the lane marking according to the detection signal and the state signal upon receiving the detection signal that there is the target carrier or the lane marking in the environment image.

A vehicle may include a communicator configured to receive driver state information from a surrounding vehicle, a detector configured to obtain driving information related to surrounding vehicle, a driving assistance module configured to control at least one of a driving speed or a driving direction and a controller configured to determine whether a driver of the surrounding vehicle is in drowsiness state based on whether the received driver state information satisfies a predetermined condition and if the driver of the surrounding vehicle is determined as drowsiness state, control the driving assistance module to avoid the surrounding vehicle.

An advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and a manipulation assembly thereof. The manipulation assembly is configured as a joystick independently arranged in a vertical direction as a whole, and internally includes, at least partially, a plurality of manipulation modules used for an ADAS. The ADAS includes a manipulation assembly, a sensor module configured to detect the states of a driver, a vehicle and/or other vehicles, and a control module configured to receive a manipulation signal sent by the manipulation assembly and sensor data detected by the sensor module, and perform a corresponding driver assistance control operation according to the manipulation signal and the sensor data. Such configurations can improve user manipulation experience and ensure manipulation safety.

Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to navigating a trailer after the physical connection between a vehicle and trailer disconnects. In one embodiment, a method includes responsive to determining that a physical connection between a vehicle and a trailer has disconnected, determining trajectory information for navigating the trailer without a connection to the vehicle. The method includes communicating the trajectory information to the trailer to cause the trailer to follow a trajectory associated with the vehicle. The method includes monitoring whether the trailer is following the trajectory.

A method for controlling autonomous driving of a vehicle according to the present invention comprises the steps of: constructing a safe stopping distance table including multiple preset stopping levels corresponding to multiple stopping distances determined based on multiple stopping variables required for calculating a safe stopping distance; acquiring current stopping variables required for calculating the safe stopping distance during autonomous driving; determining any one of the preset stopping levels as a current stopping level based on the acquired current stopping variables; selecting a certain stopping distance corresponding to the determined current stopping level as a current stopping distance, using the safe stopping distance table, and controlling a driving speed of the vehicle so that a distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle is maintained as the selected current stopping distance.

A method for operating an autonomously driving vehicle that is connected to a central computer unit via a communication connection for exchanging data. During the autonomous driving mode, a request to take over a driving task is emitted to a vehicle user when at least one takeover condition is fulfilled. The takeover condition is fulfilled when it is established that the communication connection to the central computer unit is disrupted on a route portion that exceeds a predetermined length and on which the vehicle is located or which the vehicle is approaching.

A safety system for a vehicle may include one or more processors configured to determine uncertainty data indicating uncertainty in one or more predictions from a driving model during operation of a vehicle; change or update one or more of the driving model parameters to one or more changed or updated driving model parameters based on the determined uncertainty data; and provide the one or more changed or updated driving model parameters to a control system of the vehicle for controlling the vehicle to operate in accordance with the driving model including the one or more changed or updated driving model parameters.

Information related to a vehicle can be displayed by projecting an image based on the information on a road surface or the like. An image projection apparatus that projects an image includes: an acquisition unit that acquires information to be displayed; and an image projection unit that projects the image based on the information to be displayed acquired by the acquisition unit.