An information display system for a vehicle is provided. The information display system includes a steering wheel including a ring portion and a upper opening region within the ring portion, an instrument cluster arrangement positioned forward of the steering wheel and including one or more gauges positioned such that at least a portion of the one or more gauges is visible through the upper opening region of the steering wheel, a holder configured to receive a handheld device, the holder being positioned adjacent to the one or more gauges such that the handheld device being placed on the holder is visible through the upper opening region, and an electronic control unit configured to communicate with the handheld device positioned in the holder to display information associated with the vehicle on the handheld device.

Apparatuses and a methods for controlling a part of a display of a vehicle to be transparent according to a driving situation is disclosed, where the apparatus for controlling a vehicle display includes an input configured to receive driver request information, driving road information, and steering wheel movement information and a processor configured to control a vehicle internal display to be transparent based on any one or any combination of the driver request information, the driving road information, and the steering wheel movement information, and transmit a control signal to change a portion of the vehicle internal display to be transparent.

An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to cause an information display unit to blink with a predetermined blinking pattern. The information display unit is arranged on a vehicle such that a user of the vehicle is able to see the information display unit from outside of the vehicle. The processor is configured to transmit to a terminal of the user blinking pattern information which causes at least part of a display screen of the terminal of the user to blink in the same pattern as the predetermined blinking pattern.

An information providing system includes a memory device that stores accident-prone location information including items. Each of the items includes position information of a spot that requires attention of a driver and a precaution related to the spot. The processing circuitry is configured to store, in the memory device, history information indicating whether the driver has been notified of each of the items. The processing circuitry is configured to extract, based on the accident-prone location information, the history information, and the planned travel route, an item of which the driver has not been notified. The item corresponds to a spot included in the planned travel route. The processing circuitry is configured to notify the driver of the extracted item before the driver starts driving.

Provided is a method for use by a driving assistance apparatus that assists a transition from an autonomous driving mode in which a vehicle is driven under autonomous control to a manual driving mode in which the vehicle is driven by a driver. The method includes: detecting an activity by the driver; detecting conditions of the driver; and determining a take-over request method which is a method of presenting, in the vehicle, a take-over request that informs the driver that the autonomous driving mode is going to be cancelled, the determining being based on at least the detected activity by the driver and the detected conditions.

A work vehicle includes a transmission to shift gears by switching between main transmission gears and auxiliary transmission gears, an input interface for a user to set a value of the main transmission gear corresponding to at least one of the auxiliary transmission gears, a storage to store a correspondence between the auxiliary transmission gear and the value, and a controller configured or programmed to, when the auxiliary transmission gear is switched, set the main transmission gear to the value corresponding to the switched auxiliary transmission gear based on the correspondence.

A vehicle information display apparatus may include: an input unit configured to receive driving speed information of a vehicle; a memory configured to store a program for performing speed-based mobile phone screen control by using the driving speed information of the vehicle; and a processor configured to execute the program. The processor may adjust the transparency or button size of the mobile phone screen according to the driving speed of the vehicle.

A computing platform of a vehicle may receive a request from a mobile device executing a data collection application using an element of vehicle data. The platform may access a permission table to confirm that a unique identifier of the mobile device is authorized to access the element of vehicle data. The mobile device may subscribe to a characteristic providing the element of vehicle data. The vehicle may update the element of vehicle data provided by the characteristic in accordance with a predefined threshold.

A vehicle controller may receive notification settings to apply when determining rain conditions. The controller may identify a rain condition sensor data, and send a rain alert to a mobile device to obtain confirmation to perform rain condition actions specified by the notification settings. The mobile device may receive, from the vehicle controller, the rain alert requesting confirmation to perform rain condition actions specified by the notification settings; and may send, responsive to user input to the mobile device, a confirmation to perform the rain condition actions.

Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a universal chassis that may be mounted in the head unit of a vehicle. The chassis may accept one or more modules that each have common dimensions. With a common form factor, the universal chassis is configurable as different modules with different functionality may be inserted into the chassis with ease.