An automatic driving executability determination unit restricts automatic driving when a charge amount determination unit (third determination unit) determines that a battery is in a low capacity state, and decides whether to restrict the automatic driving according to a determination result of a discharge performance determination unit (first determination unit) when a temperature determination unit (second determination unit) determines that the battery is in the low capacity state but a charge amount determination unit determines that the battery is not in the low capacity state.

An offroad travel assistance system for a user vehicle includes one or more processors and a memory communicably coupled to the one or more processors and storing a user vehicle configuration evaluation module including computer-readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to determine if user vehicle configuration information describing the user vehicle is consistent with ride information similar to the user vehicle configuration information and describing a traversal of an offroad trail by a reference vehicle and, responsive to a determination that the user vehicle configuration information is not consistent with the ride information, autonomously control at least one portion of the user vehicle so as to prevent operation of the user vehicle to traverse the offroad trail.

A system includes an acquisition unit that acquires an operation amount or a duration count, and a switching unit that switches a driving state. The switching unit switches the driving state to the cooperative driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than an intervention threshold and less than a start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than a first threshold and less than a second threshold during the autonomous driving state, switches the driving state to the autonomous driving state when the operation amount is less than the intervention threshold or the duration count is less than the first threshold during the cooperative driving state, and switches the driving state to the manual driving state when the operation amount is equal to or greater than the start threshold or the duration count is equal to or greater than the second threshold.

Provided is an automatic operation assistance system comprising: a telematics center (1) that gives notification to a connected car (2) in accordance with a request that originated from the connected car (2), the notification pertaining to the traveling environment of the connected car (2) from which the request originated and a sensor evaluation value matching an external field sensor (22a); and the connected car (2) that changes, on the basis of the sensor evaluation value notified from the telematics center (1), a process for reflecting recognition data of each external field sensor (22a) of the connected car on an automatic operation control of the connected car.

An autonomous machine control system is disclosed. The autonomous machine control system may include a controller configured to: cause an initiation of an autonomous mode of a machine, the autonomous mode providing automatic control of a propulsion operation, a steering operation, and a work operation of the machine; determine that automatic control of the work operation is to be disabled in the autonomous mode of the machine; and cause automatic control of the work operation to be disabled in the autonomous mode of the machine, while automatic control of the propulsion operation and the steering operation is enabled in the autonomous mode of the machine.

A vehicle control apparatus for controlling a vehicle based on peripheral information of the vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a control unit configured to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle in a first state in which holding of a steering apparatus of the vehicle by a driver is required or a second state in which holding of the steering apparatus is not required, wherein the control unit transitions a state of the vehicle from the second state to the first state, if input of an intervention operation for acceleration/deceleration by the driver is detected in a case of executing course change of the vehicle, when the vehicle is traveling in the second state.

A control apparatus for controlling notification data presented to an occupant of a movable object having an automated driving function. The control apparatus includes a travel road specification unit configured to specify a road scheduled to be travelled by the movable object corresponding to a destination set for the movable object. The control apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set, according to the road scheduled to be travelled, a switching recommendation point for switching from automated drive to driver-led manual drive on the road scheduled to be travelled, and estimate a scheduled passing time instant at which the movable object passes the switching recommendation point. The control apparatus includes a notification plan generation unit configured to generate a notification plan for presenting predetermined notification data to the occupant of the movable object according to the switching recommendation point and the scheduled passing time instant.

A vehicle control system includes a receiver configured to receive an operation of an occupant of a host vehicle, an information outputter configured to output information, an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving for causing the host vehicle to automatically travel, a switching controller configured to switch a driving mode of the host vehicle to any one of a plurality of driving modes including at least an automated driving mode in which the automated driving controller is caused to execute the automated driving and a manual driving mode in which the host vehicle is caused to travel according to the operation with respect to the receiver, and an output controller configured to cause the information outputter to output predetermined information when the driving mode of the host vehicle is the automated driving mode and a predetermined condition is satisfied, wherein when a predetermined operation has been received by the receiver, the switching controller determines a switching aspect of the driving mode according to whether a timing when the predetermined operation has been received is after an output start timing of the predetermined information.

A vehicle control system includes a direction detector configured to detect a direction of a face or line of sight of an occupant of a host vehicle; an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving; and a switching controller configured to switch an automated driving mode executed by the automated driving controller to any one of a plurality of automated driving modes including a first automated driving mode in which a predetermined task is required of the occupant or a predetermined automation rate is set and a second automated driving mode in which a level of the task required of the occupant is lower than in the first automated driving mode or an automation rate is lower than in the first automated driving mode, wherein the switching controller includes the direction detected by the direction detector being a predetermined direction in switching conditions for switching from the second automated driving mode to the first automated driving mode.

A vehicle control system includes an operation detector configured to detect that an operation element has been operated by an occupant, an automated driving controller configured to execute automated driving control, a switching controller configured to switch a driving mode to one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving assistance mode and a second driving assistance mode, and an output controller configured to cause an information outputter to output prescribed information when the driving mode is switched from the second driving assistance mode to the first driving assistance mode. The switching controller continues the second driving assistance mode until it is detected that the operation element has been operated after the prescribed information is output and switches the driving mode to the first driving assistance mode by cancelling the second driving assistance mode when it is detected that the operation element has been operated.