A vehicle control system increases the travel distance of a vehicle by inhibiting reduction in the SOC of a battery even when the output of an engine is limited. The control system is characterized by comprising: an electric motor that drives a vehicle: an engine that drives a power generator that generates electric power to be supplied to the electric motor; a battery that is configured to be chargeable by the power generator and that is electrically connected to the electric motor; and a controller that controls the electric motor.

A safety control method for an autonomous driving assistance system includes: receiving a status signal regarding a driver so as to determine a reasonably foreseeable indirect misuse (RFIM) event; receiving a particular system event and/or system fault; and calculating, with reference to a degree of severity of the particular system event and/or system fault, a failure rate related to the reasonably foreseeable indirect misuse (RFIM) event, wherein it can be determined, on the basis of the failure rate, whether a safety of the intended functionality (SOTIF)-related residual risk in the autonomous driving assistance system is acceptable.

In some examples, a processor may receive images from a camera mounted on a vehicle. The processor may generate a disparity image based on features in at least one of the images. In addition, the processor may determine at least one region in a first image of the received images that has a brightness that exceeds a brightness threshold. Further, the processor may determine at least one region in the disparity image having a level of disparity information below a disparity information threshold. The processor may determine a region of light interference based on an overlap between at least one region in the first image and at least one region in the disparity image, and may perform at least one action based on the region of light interference.

Disclosed herein are a driving assistance apparatus and a driving assistance method. The present disclosure is directed to allowing a driver to quickly and preferably respond to an emergency situation that is not found due to a sensor recognition error during autonomous driving of a vehicle. To this end, a driving assistance method according to the present disclosure includes monitoring a change in driving route of another vehicle traveling in front of a host vehicle through a camera of the host vehicle, receiving a guide route for autonomous driving through vehicle to everything (V2X) communication, and upon the received guide route not matching the driving route of the another vehicle, decelerating the host vehicle to a preset speed so that the host vehicle slowly travels along the guide route.

A driving control method comprises: acquiring a destination of a vehicle; referring to a first map that includes identification information of a travel lane and a second map that does not include the identification information of the travel lane; calculating a route from a current position of the vehicle to the destination; when traveling along a first route included in the route and belonging to the first map, setting first driving control, while when traveling along a second route included in the route and belonging to the second map, setting second driving control with a lower level of autonomous driving than that of the first driving control; and creating a driving plan for the vehicle to travel along the route with contents of the set driving control. A driving control apparatus is based on the method.

The present disclosure discloses a data acquisition method and apparatus, and relates to the field of automatic driving. A specific implementing solution is: obtaining indication information sent by a server, the indication information including: a data type to be acquired during a driving process of a vehicle and at least one acquisition condition triggering an acquisition of data; and according to the indication information, when a state of the vehicle meets any acquisition condition, acquiring first data corresponding to the data type.

An operation control apparatus executes sending operation instructions to vehicles running in an autonomous driving mode such that a time interval at which the vehicles running in the autonomous driving mode pass a selected point in a route is substantially constant, receiving, from any one vehicle running in the autonomous driving mode, a notification that the vehicle switches into a manual driving mode in response to an instruction of a boarding staff, and sending operation instructions to the vehicle having switched into the manual driving mode and the vehicle that continues running in the autonomous driving mode such that a time interval at which the vehicle having switched into the manual driving mode and the vehicle that continues running in the autonomous driving mode pass a selected point in the route is substantially constant in a set time from when the operation control apparatus has received the notification.

A travel controller recognizes an action of a driver of a vehicle from image data of the driver. The travel controller obtains information indicating that determination of whether autonomous driving of the vehicle is permissible cannot be given. When the information indicating that determination of whether the autonomous driving of the vehicle is permissible cannot be given is obtained, the travel controller operates a human interface to request the driver for an instruction to drive the vehicle. The travel controller determines whether the driver is giving an instruction to drive the vehicle from an action of the driver recognized in response to the request for an instruction to drive the vehicle. When determined in the determination process that the driver is giving an instruction to drive the vehicle, the travel controller operates a drive system of the vehicle to permit autonomous driving of the vehicle.

Provided is an electronic control apparatus including a reconfigurable logic circuit. The electronic control apparatus includes an information collection unit which collects information and a processing determination unit which determines a combination of processing information to be executed by the logic circuit, from a processing information storage unit that stores a plurality of pieces of processing information, on the basis of the collected information. The logic circuit is reconfigured on the basis of the combination of processing information determined by the processing determination unit.

A method of controlling a parking process of a vehicle includes the following steps: identifying a driver; learning driver parameters during a manual parking process performed by the driver, and associating the driver parameters with the identified driver; determining parking parameters based on the driver parameters; and controlling, based on the parking parameters, an autonomous parking process of the vehicle performed by a parking assistance system.