Various technologies described herein pertain to sharing of detection of active emergency vehicles within an autonomous vehicle fleet. Information specifying detection of an active emergency vehicle at a first location in an environment is received. The active emergency vehicle is detected based upon sensor inputs of a first autonomous vehicle in an autonomous vehicle fleet. A second autonomous vehicle, at a second location, in the autonomous vehicle fleet is identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle based on the information specifying the detection of the active emergency vehicle at the first location and the second location of the second autonomous vehicle. A remote assistance session for the second autonomous vehicle is caused to be initiated based on the second autonomous vehicle being identified as being approached by the active emergency vehicle. The second autonomous vehicle is controllable by a remote operator during the remote assistance session.

A vehicle running mode control method may include detecting, by a mode controller, a mode switching from an electric vehicle mode (EV mode) to a hybrid electric vehicle mode (HEV mode) while a vehicle runs; and performing a continuously variable transmission (CVT) cooperative mode switching control in which a drive motor is connected to an engine by engaging a clutch by operating the CVT.

A control device of an automated driving vehicle is configured to perform a recognition process, a search process, and a selection process. The recognition processing is a process for recognizing that the vehicle has entered a boarding area where an occupant gets off or gets on. The search process is a process of searching for a guide in the boarding area when the vehicle enters the boarding area. The selection process is a process, as the operation of the vehicle in the boarding area, in which a first operation mode is selected when the guide is not found, and a second operation mode is selected when the guide is found. The control device is configured to mitigate safety standards of an active safety system which avoids a collision between the vehicle and surrounding objects in the second operation mode, as compared with the first operation mode.

A method of organizing and accessing vehicle steering preferences includes identifying first operating configurations from a first list and second operating configurations from a second list. The same file is assigned to each of the first and second operating configurations that are identical to one another. A unique file is assigned to each of the first and second operating configurations that is different from all the other first and second operating configurations. A request is received to operate the vehicle in a driving mode associated with one of the first operating configurations. The vehicle is automatically configured with the first operating configuration associated with the requested driving mode.

A vehicle control apparatus that controls a vehicle based on peripheral information of the vehicle, comprising: a first operator used to start first travel control; a second operator used to resume the first travel control after the first travel control has been terminated; a third operator used to further start second travel control during the first travel control; and a control unit configured to, while the first travel control and the second travel control are active, if the first travel control and the second travel control are terminated based on the same condition or the same timing, resume the first travel control and the second travel control in accordance with an operation of the second operator.

In one embodiment, control of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes determining a current scenario of the ADV. Based on the scenario, a control algorithm is selected among a plurality of distinct control algorithms as the active control algorithm. One or more control commands are generated using the active control algorithm, based one or more target inputs. The control commands are applied to effect movement of the ADV.

Provided is a vehicle control device including: a recognition unit configured to recognize an object which is located near a vehicle; a calculation unit configured to calculate an area of risk which is distributed around the object; a generation unit configured to generate a target trajectory for the vehicle to travel along on the basis of the area; and a driving control unit configured to automatically control at least one of a speed or steering of the vehicle on the basis of the target trajectory, wherein the generation unit selects one or a plurality of models from a plurality of models that output the target trajectory in a case where the area is input, inputs the area calculated by the calculation unit to the selected model, and generates the target trajectory on the basis of an output result of the model to which the area is input, and the calculation unit changes a range of the area in accordance with a type of model selected by the generation unit.

The disclosure describes various embodiments for monitoring safety of an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV. In one embodiment, a method includes the operations of receiving, by a vehicle controller, one or more error message from a patrol module, the one or more error messages generated by an autonomous driving system of the ADV operating in an autonomous mode, the patrol module monitoring the autonomous driving system; evaluating a status of the autonomous driving system based on the one or more error messages; and keeping the ADV in the autonomous mode or switching it to a manual mode based on the status of the autonomous driving system.

A control device includes an internal combustion engine control unit configured to control an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine control unit is configured to, in a case where a first traveling mode, increase a rotational speed of the internal combustion engine in accordance with an increase in a speed of a vehicle and when the rotational speed reaches a predetermined first rotational speed, decrease the rotational speed to a second rotational speed lower than the first rotational speed, calculate a decrease rate of the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine per unit time when the rotational speed is decreased from the first rotational speed to the second rotational speed, and in a case where the traveling mode setting unit shifts from the first traveling mode to the second traveling mode, decrease the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine based on the decrease rate.

A personalized driving mode control device is provided. The device includes a controller configured to determine a driver based on identification information of the driver, a memory configured to store driving style information for the driver, and a personalized driving mode controller configured to control a drive mode for the driver depending on the driving style information for the driver, the drive mode configured to be controlled by receiving the driving style information of the driver from an external device when the driving style information is not stored in the memory, wherein the personalized driving mode controller is configured to correct the driving style information depending on a change in vehicle class and control the drive mode based on the corrected driving style information.