Traveling environment information is recognized. A predicted traveling path is calculated based on a driving condition of a vehicle. An oncoming-vehicle predicted traveling path is calculated based on behavior of an oncoming vehicle. It is determined whether the vehicle has an intention to enter a first intersecting road at an intersection. When the vehicle cannot enter the first intersecting road, the predicted traveling path is corrected to a limit traveling path. It is determined whether the oncoming vehicle has an intention to enter a second intersecting road at the intersection. When the oncoming vehicle cannot enter the second intersecting road, the oncoming-vehicle predicted traveling path is corrected to an oncoming-vehicle limit traveling path. The oncoming vehicle is set as a control target against which emergency braking is executed when the predicted traveling path and the oncoming-vehicle predicted traveling path overlap each other at least in part.

A safety system for a baggage tractor is provided that addresses the problems associated with tipping over or flipping of vehicles due to excessive speed around turns. Additionally, the safety system for a baggage tractor is provided that is fully integrated to ease replacement of a combustion engine in a baggage tractors with an electric motor and automated safety control system.

An autonomous driving apparatus for generating an intersection path reflecting a driving record may include: a path generating device that generates information on a first path for driving of an autonomous vehicle at an intersection; a path comparison operating device that generates offset information between the generated information on the first path and information on a second path along which the autonomous vehicle is driving; a comparison operation evaluating device that determines whether to store the information on the second path based on the generated offset information; and a comparison operation storage that stores the information on the second path and the offset information based on the determination of whether to store the information on the second path.

A driver assistance system for the automated longitudinal guidance of a motor vehicle detects a desired turning maneuver of the driver of the motor vehicle when the vehicle is in motion with automated longitudinal guidance, and reduces the speed of the motor vehicle in accordance with the detected turning maneuver.

A driving assistance system for automated driving of a vehicle includes at least one processor unit, which is designed to perform the following when the driving assistance system is carrying out a maneuver of turning onto a street: to determine, on the basis of environment data of an environment sensor system of the vehicle, whether another, on-coming road user is blocking a lane of the street which corresponds to the vehicle; and when it is determined that the other road user is blocking the lane of the street which corresponds to the vehicle to carry out a situation evaluation in order to determine whether the vehicle should back up in order to allow the other road user to exit the street or whether the other road user should be requested to clear the lane by backing up.

An apparatus and a method for controlling motion of a vehicle to improve turning motion performance are provided. The processor determines a riding position of a user, receives information about a steering angle of the vehicle, and outputs a vehicle control signal with regard to turning motion performance according to at least one of a phase difference between a yaw rate and lateral acceleration or a lateral slip angle with respect to the riding position, based on the received steering angle. A controller controls the vehicle in accordance with the vehicle control signal. The apparatus provides a passenger of the vehicle with optimal turning motion performance.

The technology relates to developing a highly accurate understanding of a vehicle's sensor fields of view in relation to the vehicle itself. A training phase is employed to gather sensor data in various situations and scenarios, and a modeling phase takes such information and identifies self-returns and other signals that should either be excluded from analysis during real-time driving or accounted for to avoid false positives. The result is a sensor field of view model for a particular vehicle, which can be extended to other similar makes and models of that vehicle. This approach enables a vehicle to determine when sensor data is of the vehicle or something else. As a result, the detailed modeling allowing the on-board computing system to make driving decisions and take other actions based on accurate sensor information.

A device can comprise a memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and comprising computer executable components, comprising a trajectory determination component that determines a trajectory of an adjacent-lane traveling vehicle traveling in a lane adjacent to a vehicle comprising the device, wherein visibility of the adjacent-lane traveling vehicle, from the vehicle, is impaired by a succeeding vehicle traveling between the adjacent-lane traveling vehicle and the vehicle, a collision avoidance component that, in response to the trajectory of the adjacent-lane traveling vehicle being determined, by the trajectory determination component, to prevent a safe lane change by the vehicle to the lane, initiates a collision avoidance action for the vehicle.

A vehicle travel control apparatus includes an information acquiring section; a determining section that determines whether a special road terrain exists; and a speed control section that controls a speed of the subject vehicle. The speed control section is further configured to: when the special road terrain exists but a preceding vehicle does not exist, increase or decrease the speed of the subject vehicle with respect to a pre-set vehicle speed in the energy efficiency zone such that the energy efficiency is improved; and when the special road terrain and a preceding vehicle exists and the speed of the subject vehicle is planned to increase in the energy efficiency zone, control the speed of the subject vehicle in an inter-vehicle distance maintenance zone such that the subject vehicle has an inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle longer than a pre-set inter-vehicle distance.

A system and method of path planning utilizing a clothoid curve to connect a start point and an end point is provided. The method includes receiving at a path planning system inputs including the start point and the end point of a desired path. The method further includes calculating clothoid parameters for a clothoid curve connecting the start point and the end point based the received start point, the received end point, and a closed-form expression, wherein the closed-form expression is generated based on a relationship between a plurality of unique center point values associated with a plurality of unique clothoid curves and the clothoid parameters associated with each of the plurality of unique clothoid curves. A clothoid curve is generated based on the determined clothoid parameters, wherein the generated clothoid curve represents a planned path from the start point to the end point.