Aspects of the present invention relate to control system (100) for controlling a transition of a vehicle between a first driving mode and a second driving mode. The control system comprises one or more controllers, configured to: receive (302) a first request signal indicative of an occupant-initiated preparatory request; receive (303) a second request signal indicative of an occupant-initiated transition request; determine (304) a first control signal for controlling output of information to an occupant of the vehicle indicative of the driving environment in dependence on receipt of the first request signal; determine (308) a second control signal for causing transition of the vehicle from the first driving mode to the second driving mode in dependence on receipt of both the first request signal and the second request signal; and output (306, 310) the first or second control signal to a vehicle system.

An autonomous vehicle (AV) implements a notification system that provides notifications to user devices in nearby vehicles to alert drivers of the nearby vehicles of the AV's planned behavior. The notifications are delivered wirelessly and output by the user device to the drivers. The planned behaviors of the AV may not be conveyed by existing mechanisms, such as turning signals or hazard lights. The AV or the receiving user device may determine when an AV's planned behavior may impact a particular driver, and provide relevant notifications to the driver.

Disclosed are an apparatus and method for preventing a vehicle collision. The apparatus includes a communication unit wirelessly communicating with a surrounding vehicle, a sensing unit detecting the surrounding vehicle and a lane, a traveling control module configured to control steering or braking of an ego vehicle, and a controller configured to determine whether the ego vehicle can perform steering avoidance driving toward a neighboring lane, through the sensing unit, based on information on a driving mode of a vehicle ahead received through the communication unit, if it is checked through the communication unit that a vehicle ahead of the vehicle ahead is in a stop state and to control the ego vehicle to perform the steering avoidance driving toward the neighboring lane or to urgently brake through the traveling control module, based on a result of the determination.

An interactive system (1) for interacting with a user is disclosed. The interactive system (1) includes at least one interface (3), a measuring device (5), and a processing unit (7) comprising an interpretation module for receiving a physiological parameter obtained by the measuring device (5) and for defining, based on the physiological parameter, a datum representative of the physiological state of the user (U). The processing unit (7) comprises a data communication module for communicating data with a server (11) storing a library of applications, a data processing module for selecting an application on the basis of the datum representative of the physiological state, an information module for notifying the user (U) of the selected application, and detecting a validation action from the user (U) validating the notified application, and a download module for downloading the validated application.

A driving control method and apparatus are provided. The method may be applied to the intelligent vehicle field such as intelligent driving/automatic driving. The driving control method includes, after calculating a conventional path in a conventional map, the driving control apparatus searches a high-definition map for a high-definition path that matches the conventional path, and if yes, performs real-time navigation broadcast by using the conventional path, and performs automatic driving by using the found high-definition path. The driving control method and apparatus use advantages of the conventional map, for example, rich road sections and updated real-time traffic information, a more proper calculated conventional path, and a better effect of real-time navigation broadcast, and implement automatic vehicle driving by using a high-definition path, to reduce user operations, thereby improving user experience.

The driving support apparatus includes a memory configured to store information representing a degree of familiarity with an environment for a driver of a vehicle; and a processor configured to detect an object existing around the vehicle based on a sensor signal representing a situation around the vehicle obtained by a sensor mounted on the vehicle, determine whether or not the object approaches the vehicle so that the object may collide with the vehicle, and notify the driver of the approach via a notification device mounted on the vehicle at a timing corresponding to the degree of familiarity with the environment for the driver of the vehicle, when it is determined that the object approaches the vehicle so that the object may collide with the vehicle.

A travel controller detects, from an image representing the face of a driver of a vehicle, an act of the driver checking surroundings of the vehicle, records a time at which the act of checking is detected, and suggests to the driver a lane change for the vehicle to change a travel lane to an adjoining lane. In the case that the act of checking is detected in a precheck period before a suggestion time at which the lane change is suggested, the travel controller makes the vehicle execute the lane change regardless of whether the act of checking is detected in a post-suggestion check period after the suggestion time of the lane change.

The disclosed technologies relate to reducing audible distractions for a driver of a vehicle. A method includes obtaining audio data based on sound detected inside the vehicle, identifying an audio event based on the audio data, determining a distraction rating for the audio event, the distraction rating indicating an estimated level of distraction caused by the audio event, and generating an alert when the distraction rating exceeds a threshold.

To provide a vehicle control system that is capable of planning a trajectory that can ensure more visibility and enables safe traveling when an invisible range of a sensor exists.

A vehicle control system that plans a target trajectory of a vehicle based on recognition information from an external environment sensor, the vehicle control system including a recognizing unit that recognizes an object at a periphery of the vehicle based on the recognition information; and a trajectory planning unit that plans the target trajectory such that an actual detection range of the external environment sensor becomes wide when the recognizing unit recognizes the object.

A presentation control device is configured to control information presentation to a driver of a vehicle. A determination unit is configured to distinguish between a monitoring interruption mode in which the driver is permitted to interrupt surroundings monitoring and a monitoring-required mode in which the driver is prohibited to interrupt the surroundings monitoring, and in the monitoring-required mode, between a hands-free permitted state and a hands-free prohibited state. A presentation control unit configured to perform the information presentation related to a mode transition from the monitoring interruption mode to the monitoring-required mode when the mode transition occurs. The presentation control unit is configured to perform the information presentation at an earlier timing when the monitoring interruption mode is transitioned to the hands-free prohibited state than when the monitoring interruption mode is transitioned to the hands-free permitted state.