A control system of a self-driving vehicle (SDV) can process sensor data from a sensor system of the SDV to autonomously control acceleration, steering, and braking systems of the SDV along a current route. Based on the current route, the control system can dynamically determine a set of immediate actions to be performed by the SDV. Based on the set of immediate actions, the control system can generate a set of intention outputs on a lighting strip of the SDV, the set of intention outputs indicating the set of immediate actions prior to the SDV executing the set of immediate actions.

A method for operating a vehicle, the vehicle driving autonomously in a parking lot and emitting at least one signal to its environment during its autonomous travel to signal to the environment that it is driving autonomously. The invention furthermore relates to a method for operating a parking lot, to a device for operating a vehicle, a device for operating a parking lot, to a vehicle, a device, a parking lot, and to a computer program.

This vehicle lamp system, which is used together with a vehicle control unit that controls the travel state of a vehicle and a mode determination unit that can determine an automatic driving mode of another vehicle, comprises a lamp mounted on the vehicle, and a lamp control unit which, depending on the mode signal outputted by the mode determination unit, controls the lamp in different ways (for example, displaying an arrow with road surface rendering).

A driving assistance apparatus includes: a determination processing unit to determine whether or not a vehicle is present around a target vehicle on the basis of detection information around the target vehicle; and a notification processing unit to notify information to a driver of the target vehicle, in which the notification processing unit notifies reference information of manual driving in a case where the determination processing unit determines that there is no vehicle ahead of the target vehicle.

The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for assisting a customer retrieve a package from an autonomous vehicle. In an example procedure, the autonomous vehicle may detect the customer waiting at a first spot and may determine that the first spot is unsuitable/unsafe for the customer to retrieve a package from a locked compartment in the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may therefore instruct the customer to move to a second spot that is safer and closer to the compartment and may then execute an authentication procedure to authenticate the customer and unlock a door of the compartment. In an alternative approach, the autonomous vehicle may travel to a parking spot that is safer and closer to where the customer is waiting (rather than instructing the customer to move) before authenticating and unlocking the door of the compartment to allow the customer to retrieve the package.

An autonomous driving display system includes: an autonomous driving control device to carry out autonomous driving; an autonomous driving display device display state of which is recognizable from outside a vehicle; and an in-vehicle device to make the autonomous driving control device carry out autonomous driving of the vehicle upon receiving an autonomous driving instruction signal instructing autonomous driving, monitor start of the autonomous driving of the vehicle by the autonomous driving control device, and control a display state of the autonomous driving display device to be in a display state different from a display state before the autonomous driving is started when the autonomous driving of the vehicle is started by the autonomous driving control device.

A delivery robot that delivers a delivery item in a building comprises: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire external environment information; a travel control unit configured to control traveling of the delivery robot to a delivery destination in the building on the basis of the environment information acquired by the first acquisition unit; and a notification unit configured to perform notification in a case where an opening operation of a door existing in a traveling direction of the delivery robot is detected during the traveling of the delivery robot on the basis of the environment information acquired by the first acquisition unit. The notification unit performs notification by at least one of light and sound toward the door.

A robot for detecting a dangerous situation using artificial intelligence includes a memory configured to store a voice recognition model for inferring whether a current situation is the dangerous situation from voice data and an image recognition model for inferring whether the current situation is the dangerous situation from image data, and a processor configured to acquire one or more of the voice data or the image data and output a notification indicating the dangerous situation when the dangerous situation is detected from the voice data using the voice recognition model or when the dangerous situation is detected from the image data using the image recognition model.

A computer is programmed to deploy an aerial drone to fly within a specified distance of a first vehicle. The computer is programmed to detect a second vehicle and then activate an aerial drone light.

The present invention relates to a vehicle (1), particularly a motor vehicle, with at least one illuminating device having a longitudinally shaped illuminating fixture for creating a light strip along a defined line of the illuminating fixture, wherein a first section (2, 2′) of the illuminating fixture is arranged on the interior (3) of the vehicle (1) and a second section (4, 4′) of the illuminating fixture is arranged on the exterior (5) of the vehicle, the illuminating device is set up so as to create a similar light strip along a line of the first (2, 2′) and of the second section (4, 4′) of the illuminating fixture, and the light of the light strip created by the first section (2, 2′) of the illuminating fixture is radiated such that it is visible for an occupant located at a definable position on the interior of the vehicle (1), and the light of the light strip created by the second section (4, 4′) of the illuminating fixture is radiated such that it is visible from a definable position relative to and outside of the vehicle (1).