A vehicle travel route control system controls a plurality of vehicles having an autonomous driving function or a driving assist function, wherein a vehicle dispatch information data server creates a travel route map, in which driving mode switching position at which vehicles have switched over during travel to the manual driving mode from the autonomous driving mode, have been added to a road map. Based on the travel route map, a travel route that avoids the driving mode switching position is calculated from among a plurality of routes on which a dispatch vehicle candidate travels to a destination via user position. When a travel route that avoids the driving mode switching position is calculated, a dispatch vehicle candidate is set as a dispatch vehicle, and the calculated travel route information is transmitted to an on-board unit mounted in the dispatch vehicle.

An automated drive device that automatically stops a vehicle in a pick-up and drop-off area in which a passenger gets and off the vehicle includes at least one processor and at least one memory that stores a program and information to be read by the at least one processor. The processor is configured to acquire the type of the passenger before the vehicle reaches the pick-up and drop-off area as a first process. The processor is configured to change a behavior for stopping the vehicle in the pick-up and drop-off area in accordance with the type of the passenger as a second process.

System and methods are provided that allow users of shared vehicles to benefit from an enhanced user experience that seamlessly unlocks and/or provides access to features for autonomous vehicles by proactively computing an interest index based on detected contextual behavioral patterns of the pedestrians such as the trajectory a candidate passenger is walking given a locational context.

During a period from when an automated driving vehicle starts pulling over to a sidewalk side until the vehicle pulls over completely thereto, an operation control section causes the vehicle to immediately stop when an object that can be an obstacle exists in at least one of a middle front area, a sidewalk-side front area, and a sidewalk-side side area that are areas each within a predetermined distance at a middle front, at a sidewalk-side front, and on a sidewalk-side side of the vehicle, respectively. During the period, the operation control section does not cause the vehicle to stop when the object does not exist in any of the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area, even when the object exists in an area surrounding the vehicle other than the middle front area, the sidewalk-side front area, and the sidewalk-side side area.

System and methods are provided that contextually define interest index requirements for shared and autonomous vehicles. An interest index is computed based on detected contextual behavioral patterns of pedestrians such as the trajectory a candidate passenger is walking given a locational context. The use of the interest index allows users of shared vehicles to benefit from an enhanced user experience that seamlessly unlocks and/or provides access to features for autonomous vehicles based on the interest index.

An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a transport, that an issue will soon occur, determining, by the transport, a time the issue will occur, and displaying, by the transport, the time the issue will occur. The issue is based on sensor data approaching a threshold within a period of time that is faster than an average period of time.

The present invention relates to an autonomous driving system and an autonomous steering apparatus. An autonomous steering apparatus includes: a support bracket having a preset volume, and formed at an inner upper portion thereof with a lower reception portion having a groove or hole structure recessed downward by a preset depth; and a steering drive shaft having a preset length, and having a lower end rotatably provided in the lower reception portion and an upper end connected to a steering system of a vehicle.

A parking assist system is configured to assist a plurality of autonomous vehicles for auto-parking. The system is configured to: receive specifying information input by a user, the specifying information specifying, as a plurality of specified vehicles, a group of vehicles among a plurality of autonomous driving vehicles in a parking lot that are requested by the user to jointly exit the parking lot at a same time; determine whether time differences, with which the plurality of specified vehicles are estimated to sequentially arrive at a getting-on area in the parking lot, fall within a predetermined time; set guidance contents for the plurality of specified vehicles so that the plurality of specified vehicles arrive at the getting-on area with the time differences within the predetermined time; and transmit each of the guidance contents to a respective one of the plurality of specified vehicles.

A driving support apparatus includes a communication device configured to communicate with a vehicle-mounted device installed in a vehicle that's under automatic driving control; and a processor configured to determine, upon receiving a stop request by a passenger who is riding in the vehicle from a mobile terminal of the passenger or the vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle through the communication device, a stop location in accordance with the stop request; generate a driving route of the vehicle from a present location of the vehicle to the stop location; and calculate a stop time required to stop the vehicle at the stop location, based on the driving route to the stop location, and when the stop time is less than an allocated time for the stop request, send a stop command for moving the vehicle to the stop location to the vehicle-mounted device of the vehicle through the communication device.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a system having a memory, a plurality of self-driving systems for controlling a vehicle, and one or more processors. The processors are configured to receive at least one fallback task in association with a request for a primary task and at least one trigger of each fallback task. Each trigger is a set of conditions that, when satisfied, indicate when a vehicle requires attention for proper operation. The processors are also configured to send instructions to the self-driving systems to execute the primary task and receive status updates from the self-driving systems. The processors are configured to determine that a set of conditions of a trigger is satisfied based on the status updates and send further instructions based on the associated fallback task to the self-driving systems.