An electric suspension control, in a vehicle including an electric suspension apparatus driven with a motor, short-circuits the motor and limits a vehicle speed to a predetermined speed or less, in a case where an abnormality occurs in the electric suspension apparatus.

A system may include sensors that may acquire health data related to an individual. The system may also include a processor that may receive trip data associated with a current location of the individual and a destination location for the individual, traffic condition data associated with routes between the current location and the destination location, and weather related data associated with the routes. The processor may also receive the health data from the sensors and determine whether the individual is associated with a driver assessment score above a threshold based on the trip data, the traffic condition data, the weather data, the health data, or any combination thereof. The processor may then send an activation signal to a vehicle control system in response to the driver assessment score being above the threshold, such that the activation signal may enable the vehicle control system to control operations of a vehicle.

An automatic speed control device includes: an upper limit speed setting part for setting a first speed as an upper limit speed during running on a main road and setting a second speed slower than the first speed as the upper limit speed during running on a connecting road; a target speed setting part for setting a target speed to less than or equal to the upper limit; and a speed control part for controlling a vehicle speed based on the target speed. The speed control part makes the vehicle accelerate according to a depression amount of the accelerator pedal when the pedal is depressed. The upper limit speed setting part sets the upper limit speed to a speed faster than the second speed and less than the first speed when the vehicle speed has become faster than the second speed due to depression of the pedal.

The invention relates to a method for locating a vehicle (1) in a surrounding area, comprising the following steps: providing a primary sensor system (2, 34, 41, 52); providing a secondary sensor system (4, 35, 44, 56), the secondary system being configured in such a manner as to provide a backup to the primary system, the primary sensor system and the secondary sensor system being configured in such a manner as to completely control the vehicle; detecting environment data by means of the primary sensor system and the secondary sensor system; creating maps of the surroundings from the environment data from the primary sensor system and the secondary sensor system by means of a computer system; transferring the maps of the surroundings created from the primary sensor system and the maps of the surroundings created from the secondary sensor system to the computer system; generating at least one plausibility-checked primary sensor system sub-map and at least one plausibility-checked secondary sensor system sub-map by means of the computer system; transferring the plausibility-checked primary sensor system sub-map to the primary sensor system and transferring the plausibility-checked secondary sensor system sub-map to the secondary sensor system; locating the vehicle in the surrounding area by matching the environment data from the primary sensor system with the plausibility-checked primary sensor system sub-map and by matching the environment data from the secondary sensor system with the plausibility-checked secondary sensor system sub-map; comparing the location of the vehicle determined by the primary sensor system with the location of the vehicle determined by the secondary sensor system.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a system in which the reliability of an automatic driving system can be excellently complemented by a different control system while the automatic driving system is effectively used. The vehicle control device outputs to a drive device one of a first control signal generated on the basis of automatic driving control information, and a second control signal generated on the basis of the relative information between a vehicle and a surrounding object. If an abnormality is detected in the automatic driving control information, the second control signal is output to the drive device in place of the first control signal.

A controller is adapted to receive signals indicative of an image including a representation of a posted speed limit for a current section of a road on which an associated vehicle is traveling. The controller evaluates the image to identify the posted speed limit and dynamically determines if the posted speed limit is above a predetermined threshold speed limit. Only if the posted speed limit is above the predetermined threshold speed limit, the controller sets the identified posted speed limit as a warning threshold. If a speed of the associated vehicle is more than a predetermined range over the warning threshold, the controller transmits a warning signal to a notifier for notifying an operator of the associated vehicle and controls a speed of the vehicle based on the posted speed limit.

A vehicle that includes: an input device that is configured to receive a user command from a user; and a controller that is configured to: obtain vehicle driving information, based on the vehicle driving information, control the vehicle to travel autonomously, determine whether the user command is inconsistent with the vehicle driving information, based on a determination that the user command is inconsistent with the vehicle driving information, determine to ignore the user command, in response to a determination to ignore the user command, control the vehicle based on the vehicle driving information without the user command, based on a determination that the user command is consistent with the vehicle driving information, determine to apply the user command, and in response to a determination to apply the user command, control the vehicle based on the vehicle driving information and the user command is disclosed.

A control device for an unmanned vehicle includes a temperature data acquisition unit acquiring temperature data of hydraulic oil supplied to a first hydraulic actuator actuating a steering device of the unmanned vehicle, and a command output unit outputting a change command for changing a travel parameter of the unmanned vehicle based on the temperature data.

Apparatus for use with a vehicle is disclosed and comprises an interlock device. The device is adapted to, in use: at least while said vehicle is in motion, periodically generate a prompt; assess motion of said vehicle; at least when said vehicle is assessed by said device to be at rest, carry out an analysis operation wherein a breath sample is received and analyzed; and in the event that, within a predetermined period following a prompt, the device does not, while said vehicle is assessed to be at rest, carry out said analysis operation, enter an alarm state at least when the vehicle is in motion. The device can be adapted to carry out analysis operations only when the vehicle is assessed to be at rest.

Even if an adjustable speed limitation function (ASL) sets a vehicle speed upper limit to a relatively low vehicle speed, a control unit 10 is configured to, in order to suppress the problem of a decrease in fuel efficiency while the ASL is executing the vehicle speed limitation, suppress an output of an engine 2 so that the vehicle speed does not exceed the vehicle speed upper limit, and cause a gear stage of an automatic transmission 3 to be shifted up to a higher speed side gear stage having higher fuel efficiency than a gear stage that is set based on the driving state of a vehicle 1, when a deviation between the vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed sensor 21 and the vehicle speed upper limit that is set by a vehicle speed upper limit setting switch 24 becomes less than a predetermined threshold.