A vehicle control system includes a nearby information acquirer that acquires nearby information of an own vehicle, an automated driving controller that automatically selects and executes a first automated driving mode in which lane change is at least partially automatically performed and a second automated driving mode in which lane change is not automatically performed on the basis of the nearby information of the own vehicle acquired by the nearby information acquirer, and a notification controller that causes an output unit to output information prompting switching to manual driving at a position before a branch point when a condition is satisfied, the condition including that during execution of the second automated driving mode there is a branch point for entering a branch road from a main line when the own vehicle is traveling along a predetermined route.

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods capable of adaptively estimating time-to-take over during ODD exit events, by estimating the recovery time for driver and the action time required to safely handle the situation. In more detail, the proposed system allows for field monitoring for online verification (i.e., in-vehicle verification) of adaptive hand over time, and for facilitated updating of the systems predicting the hand-over time (i.e., Action Time Network and Reaction Time Network) in a decoupled manner by efficient use of data from field monitoring.

A driving assistance device is the driving assistance device used in a vehicle capable of switching between autonomous driving and driving that requires operation by the driver, and includes a different vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires autonomous driving information on different vehicles on a traveling road of the vehicle, an autonomous driving ratio acquisition unit that acquires a ratio of autonomous driving in the different vehicles from the autonomous driving information on the different vehicles acquired by the different vehicle information acquisition unit, and a notification control unit that provides information for supporting determination on switching between autonomous driving and driving that requires operation by a driver if the ratio of autonomous driving in the different vehicles is equal to or larger than a predetermined ratio.

An autonomous driving control method for an autonomous driving vehicle is provided. The method may include entering a control transfer standby state when an autonomous driving release button input is detected in an autonomous driving mode, determining whether a driver intervenes in the control transfer standby state, and when the driver is determined to intervene in the control transfer standby state, terminating the control transfer standby state to enter a manual driving mode.

A method for determining event data including: sampling a first data stream within a first time window at a first sensor of an onboard vehicle system coupled to a vehicle, extracting interior activity data from the first data stream; determining an interior event based on the interior activity data; sampling a second data stream within a second time window at a second sensor of the onboard vehicle system; extracting exterior activity data from the second image stream; determining an exterior event based on the exterior activity data; correlating the exterior event and the interior event to generate combined event data; automatically classifying the combined event data to generate an event label; and automatically labeling the first time window of the first data stream and the second time window of the second data stream with the combined event label to generate labeled event data.

Provided is a vehicle control device configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle; detect operation states of a plurality of external recognition sensors; determine a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode, a second driving mode, and a third driving mode; change the third driving mode to either one of the first driving mode and the second driving mode when determining that a failure has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors that implement: a function of causing the vehicle to follow a preceding vehicle; and a function of assisting the vehicle in keeping a lane; and change the third driving mode to the second driving mode when determining that degradation in performance has occurred in one of the plurality of external recognition sensors.

A vehicle control device includes: a first measurer measures a position (hereinafter referred to as a first position) of a vehicle based on radio waves coming from artificial satellites; a second measurer measures the position (hereinafter referred to as a second position) of the vehicle based on a behavior of the vehicle; a determiner determines a correction amount of the second position based on a difference between the first position and the second position; and a driving controller performs automated driving of the vehicle based on the first position or the second position corrected based on the correction amount, wherein when the correction amount is not determined, the driving controller lowers the control level of the automated driving in a shorter travel distance or travel time under a condition that the first position is not measured as compared with a case where the correction amount is determined.

A vehicle control device recognizing a runway area in which a vehicle is to travel, generating a target trajectory such that the target trajectory follows a center of the recognized runway area in a lateral direction, causing the vehicle to travel along the target trajectory, and changing a drive mode of the vehicle from a second drive mode to a first drive mode in a case in which a distance between the center and a reference point of the vehicle is equal to or longer than a reference distance.

A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit configured to recognize a position and a surrounding situation of a vehicle, a driving control unit configured to control steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle independently of an operation of a driver of the vehicle, and a mode determination unit configured to determine any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle and change the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode in which a task is severer when a task associated with the determined driving mode is not executed by the driver, the second driving mode being a driving mode in which a task imposed on the driver is milder than that in the first driving mode. When accuracy of recognition of the position of the vehicle is lowered, the mode determination unit estimates a speed at which the vehicle travels on a road on the basis of curvature of the road in front of the vehicle and changes the driving mode of the vehicle when the estimated speed exceeds a predetermined prescribed speed.

A vehicle control device according to an embodiment controls automated driving of a vehicle. The vehicle control device includes a processor configured to execute a program to perform acquiring map information in which a recommended lane on a route to a destination of the vehicle is identified, and controlling a control level of the automated driving on the basis of the acquired map information. The processor is further configured to lower the control level of the automated driving when a boundary line of the recommended lane is not recognizable within a predetermined distance in a travel direction of the vehicle.