An autonomous vehicle can obtain state data associated with an object in an environment, obtain map data including information associated with spatial relationships between at least a subset of lanes of a road network, and determine a set of candidate paths that the object may follow in the environment based at least in part on the spatial relationships between at least two lanes of the road network. Each candidate path can include a respective set of spatial cells. The autonomous vehicle can determine, for each candidate path, a predicted occupancy for each spatial cell of the respective set of spatial cells of such candidate path during at least a portion of a prediction time horizon. The autonomous vehicle can generate prediction data associated with the object based at least in part on the predicted occupancy for each spatial cell of the respective set of spatial cells for at least one candidate path.

An approach for operating a motor vehicle that is designed for an autonomous and/or partially autonomous driving operation in which the motor vehicle is moved along a predetermined driving trajectory. During the autonomous or partially autonomous driving operation, a driving trajectory running centrally or substantially centrally along the lane traveled is shifted to the edge of the lane on the basis of lane information describing the lane currently traveled by the motor vehicle, and on the basis of speed information describing a current speed of the motor vehicle, and on the basis of at least one piece of traffic information describing a current traffic volume in the surroundings of the motor vehicle. Alternatively, or in addition, the motor vehicle is stopped before a bottleneck or an intersection is entered on the basis of road-course information describing the bottleneck or the intersection along the road course to be traveled, and additionally on the basis of emergency vehicle information describing the presence of an emergency vehicle in the surroundings of the motor vehicle, and/or on the basis of accident information describing an accident along the road course to be traveled.

This application discloses a vehicle driving exit prediction method includes: obtaining a first location of the target vehicle at the target intersection and a driving direction of the target vehicle; obtaining N reference points respectively associated with N driving exits of the target intersection, where N is a positive integer; obtaining, based on the first location, the driving direction of the target vehicle, and the N reference points, likelihoods corresponding to the N driving exits respectively, where the likelihood indicates a probability that the target vehicle travels out of the target intersection from a corresponding driving exit; and obtaining a driving exit with a largest likelihood in the N driving exits as the driving exit of the target vehicle.

A traffic signal recognition method and a traffic signal recognition device acquire a result sequence consisting of a plurality of determination results in time-series order obtained by determining a display state of a traffic signal based on a plurality of images of a traveling direction of a vehicle, set a first threshold as a number threshold if a first distance from a position of the vehicle to a position of a stop line corresponding to the traffic signal is equal to or greater than a distance threshold, set a second threshold smaller than the first threshold as the number threshold if the first distance is less than the distance threshold, and output a latest determination result if a number of determination results identical to the latest determination result is greater than the number threshold, among the determination results.

Provided is a driver assistance system (DAS) including: a storage configured to store driver tendency data including an amount of decrease in acceleration when a vehicle approaches a specific section, in a state in which an adaptive cruise control (ACC) of the vehicle is deactivated; and a controller including at least one processor configured to process the driver tendency data, wherein the controller is configured to, upon the vehicle re-entering the specific section during travel of the vehicle with the ACC, control the vehicle to perform one of acceleration control and deceleration control based on the driver tendency data.

In an apparatus for assisting a turn of a vehicle at an intersection, a turn-signal state detection unit is configured to detect an operating state of a turn signal of the vehicle. A road information detection unit is configured to detect road information that is information regarding a road on which the vehicle is traveling. A determination unit is configured to, using at least one of the detected operating state of the turn signal and the detected road information, determine whether or not the vehicle will make a turn at the intersection.

Provided is a vehicle control device including: a storage device storing a program; and a hardware processor executing the program stored in the storage device to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; determine whether or not the surrounding situation includes a road division line; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode; and set, when the vehicle is traveling in the second driving mode, the surrounding situation is determined not to include a road division line, and a preceding vehicle is recognized within a first predetermined distance in a traveling direction of the vehicle, a longer traveling continuation distance in the second driving mode using the map information.

Provided is a vehicle braking support device. The braking support device includes: detection units for detecting a state around a host vehicle; a braking support control unit for executing braking support by a braking device according to the detected state; and a vehicle stop control unit for maintaining a stopped state of a host vehicle after the host vehicle is stopped by the braking support control unit, and for releasing the stopped state of the host vehicle after a predetermined period has elapsed. The vehicle stop control unit, in a case where by using the detected state it is determined that it is desirable to maintain the stopped state of the host vehicle beyond the predetermined period, the vehicle stop control unit does not release the stopped state of the host vehicle until an operation by a driver is detected.

An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to comply with applicable regulations and statues for performing safe driving operation. An example method for operating the AV includes determining a trajectory related information of a vehicle operating on a roadway on which the AV is operating; receiving sensor data of a first area that includes the vehicle; determining an additional trajectory related information for the AV by comparing the trajectory related information of the vehicle to a current trajectory related information of the AV, wherein the additional trajectory related information is based on a category to which the vehicle belongs, and wherein the additional trajectory related information allows the AV to maintain at least a distance between the AV and the vehicle; and causing the AV to operate in accordance with the additional trajectory related information.

A vehicle includes a chassis, a driveline coupled to the chassis, and a control system. The control system is configured to monitor a condition of at least one of the vehicle, an area around the vehicle, or an operator of the vehicle; and control operation of the driveline based on the condition. Controlling the operation of the driveline includes at least one of limiting a speed at which the driveline drives the vehicle or shutting down the driveline and isolating a component of the driveline.