A running support system executes: a temperature acquisition process of acquiring a tire temperature; an appropriate value setting process of deriving, as a candidate value for a vehicle speed appropriate value, a value to be smaller as the tire temperature is lower, and setting the vehicle speed appropriate value based on the candidate value; and a support process of at least either notifying a driver of the vehicle speed appropriate value or decelerating a vehicle in a case where a vehicle speed exceeds the vehicle speed appropriate value.

Based on a model and an identity of an operator of a vehicle, a setting for a cruise control to maintain a distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle can be determined. The model can be based on historical distances maintained by the operator. The model can also be based on information about an environment in which the vehicle is operating or information about a state of the operator. The identity can be received from an interface configured to receive information associated with the identity, a cloud computing platform, or a biometric system configured to determine the identity. The cruise control can be caused to operate according to the setting. A rate of energy consumption by the vehicle when the vehicle is controlled by the cruise control can be less than the rate of energy consumption when the vehicle lacks being controlled by the cruise control.

In exemplary embodiments, methods, systems, and vehicles are provided that include: one or more sensors that are configured to at least facilitate obtaining sensor data with one or more indications pertaining to a target vehicle that is travelling ahead of the vehicle along a roadway; and a processor that is coupled to the one or more sensors and that is configured to at least facilitate: determining an initial estimated value of acceleration for the target vehicle, based on the one or more indications pertaining to the target vehicle; and controlling a vehicle action for the vehicle based at least in part on the initial estimated value of the acceleration based on the one or more indications pertaining to the target vehicle.

A device for setting a target vehicle that sets a target vehicle to be subjected to driving assistance control of a host vehicle includes: a detection signal acquisition device capable of acquiring a first detection signal representing an object by an image, and a second detection signal representing the object by a reflection point; and setting control unit, which determines whether to set a forward object as a target vehicle, wherein if a movement history is not associated with the forward object, and a combination history is associated with the forward object, then as a selection threshold of a first determination parameter for determining whether to set the forward object as the target vehicle, a selection threshold is used such that the forward object is less likely to be selected as the target vehicle than with the selection threshold which would be used if a movement history is associated with the forward object.

Provided are a vehicle obstacle-avoidance method, an apparatus, and a vehicle. The method includes: acquiring obstacle information, in a case that an obstacle is detected; determining whether the obstacle is a straight-going obstacle in a planned route, according to the planned route and the obstacle information; acquiring a center-of-gravity position of a vehicle, a safe stopping distance and a vehicle current speed, in a case that the obstacle is determined as the straight-going obstacle in the planned route; determining a maximum acceleration of the vehicle, according to the center-of-gravity position; and determining a straight-going obstacle-avoidance strategy, according to the obstacle information, the maximum acceleration, the safe stopping distance and the vehicle current speed. In the present application, current actions as well as load conditions of the vehicle are considered to determine the obstacle-avoidance strategy, thereby improving safety of the vehicle while ensuring execution of obstacle-avoidance.

A control unit for a vehicle is configured to determine, during an approaching manoeuvre of a distance controller and/or cruise controller of the vehicle towards a vehicle in front, whether or not the vehicle will overtake or can overtake the vehicle in front during the approaching manoeuvre. Furthermore, during the approaching manoeuvre, the control unit is configured to adjust a behaviour of the cruise controller and/or adaptive cruise controller of the vehicle on the basis of the above determination.

A traveling control apparatus is configured to control automated driving traveling of a vehicle based on a set automated driving level. The traveling control apparatus comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire traveling scene information that specifies a traveling scene of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform offset control to offset a traveling position of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction to increase a distance to another vehicle traveling side by side with the vehicle. The control unit performs the offset control by setting one of a first mode and a second mode based on at least one of the traveling scene information and the automated driving level.

A travel control apparatus of a self-driving vehicle including an electric control unit having a microprocessor and a memory, wherein the microprocessor is configured to function as: a proximity degree calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of proximity of a rearward vehicle at a rear of the self-driving vehicle to the self-driving vehicle; a proximity degree determination unit configured to determine whether the degree of proximity calculated by the proximity degree calculation unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined degree; and an actuator control unit configured to control the actuator so as to increase a maximum vehicle speed when it is determined by the proximity degree determination unit that the degree of proximity is equal to or greater than the predetermined degree than when it is determined that the degree of proximity is less than the predetermined degree.

An acceleration rate is controlled so that a vehicle speed during autonomous driving is caused to approach a target vehicle speed. When a host vehicle has caught up with another vehicle traveling ahead of the host vehicle, the vehicle speed of the host vehicle is limited in accordance with a headway distance to the other vehicle. An acceleration rate is changed in accordance with a frequency with which the host vehicle catches up to a preceding vehicle, which is another vehicle immediately ahead of the host vehicle, and to another vehicle ahead of the preceding vehicle.

A roof mountable sensor system for detecting an external condition is configured to be mounted on a roof of a vehicle. The sensor system has a field of detection. The sensor system comprises an adaptation structure for adapting a position of the field of detection relative to the vehicle in accordance with a speed of the vehicle.