A method of operating a vehicle is provided. The method comprises by a control circuitry of the vehicle in combination with one or more sensors of the vehicle, that a vulnerable subject is travelling on a path which intersects with a path on which the vehicle is travelling, determining, by the control circuitry, that a collision between the vehicle and the vulnerable subject is likely, predicting, by the control circuitry, a force of the collision, selecting, by the control circuitry in accordance with the predicted force of the collision, one of a plurality of models each defining an operation of the vehicle in response to determining that the vehicle is unable to avoid the collision, wherein the selected model is selected on the basis that the control circuitry determines it to result in a least amount of injury for the vulnerable subject from among the plurality of models, and controlling, by the control circuitry, one or more functions of the vehicle in accordance with the selected model.

An autonomous vehicle computing system can include a primary perception system configured to receive a plurality of sensor data points as input generate primary perception data representing a plurality of classifiable objects and a plurality of paths representing tracked motion of the plurality of classifiable objects. The autonomous vehicle computing system can include a secondary perception system configured to receive the plurality of sensor data points as input, cluster a subset of the plurality of sensor data points of the sensor data to generate one or more sensor data point clusters representing one or more unclassifiable objects that are not classifiable by the primary perception system, and generate secondary path data representing tracked motion of the one or more unclassifiable objects. The autonomous vehicle computing system can generate fused perception data based on the primary perception data and the one or more unclassifiable objects.

Provided is an autonomous driving vehicle that runs in confined areas, in which an object around the vehicle is detected by a sensing device. In the autonomous driving vehicle, an alert mode is determined depending on the distance between the vehicle and the object. A projection device projects a visible zone surrounding the vehicle on its outside in a manner corresponding to the alert mode.

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect an occurrence of a condition in an environment based on sensor data captured by a vehicle. A determination is made whether the occurrence of the condition satisfies a threshold associated with a likelihood that a behavior associated with an object in the environment will occur based on an interaction between the condition and the object, wherein the likelihood is based on prior observations of one or more objects. Subsequent to determining that the threshold is satisfied, a vehicle operation that is associated with the likelihood that the behavior associated with the object will occur is performed.

An autonomous driving device is configured to switch a driving mode, and includes a destination setting type autonomous driving mode in which a vehicle is made to travel to a destination and a following road autonomous driving mode in which, when a destination is not set, the vehicle is made to travel along a road. The autonomous driving device includes a display unit and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to, when the display unit is made to display a traveling route along a following road traveling route, make the display unit display a traveling route from a current position of the vehicle to a nearest branch road in front in a moving direction along the following road traveling route and a moving direction on the nearest branch road along the following road traveling route.

A safe passing system for a vehicle includes: a road ambient environment sensing system (101), configured to obtain sensing information of a road ambient environment in real time, process the sensing information to obtain vehicle driving assistance information, and send the vehicle driving assistance information to a vehicle-mounted terminal (102); and the vehicle-mounted terminal (102), configured to receive the vehicle driving assistance information, and plan a driving route according to the vehicle driving assistance information and vehicle-acquired information.

An autonomous driving control device is capable of starting an autonomous driving control without an operation of a driver and reducing a possibility that the driver can not start manual driving. An autonomous driving control is switched to manual driving when a determination section determines that the amount of operation by the driver is equal to or greater than a first threshold, before a predetermined time elapses since the autonomous driving control is automatically started. An autonomous driving control is switched to a manual driving when the determination section determines that the amount of operation by the driver is equal to or greater than a second threshold that is greater than the first threshold, after the predetermined time elapses.

A vehicle control system includes an acquirer that acquires information that allows recognition of a speed of another vehicle in a travel direction of an own vehicle, a determiner that determines whether or not a low speed section whose travel speed is equal to or less than a first predetermined speed is present in the travel direction of the own vehicle on the basis of the information acquired by the acquirer, and a controller that is able to perform an automated driving mode which is executed at a second predetermined speed or less and that performs predetermined control before the own vehicle reaches the low speed section that has been determined as being present by the determiner.

A driver assistance system includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicably coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to acquire data regarding presence or absence of a passer-by in a blind spot region as viewed from a vehicle to be assisted. The presence or the absence of the passer-by is identified based on, at least, recognition results by object recognition systems including an object recognition system other than an object recognition system of the vehicle to be assisted. The processor is configured to calculate certainty of a recognition result of the presence or the absence of the passer-by based on, at least, the number of the object recognition systems that recognize the same passer-by, and carry out processing of reducing a risk of collision between the vehicle to be assisted and the passer-by, in accordance with the certainty calculated.

Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. For instance, that the vehicle is approaching a crosswalk may be determined. A set of segments may be identified for the crosswalk. A set of potential occluded pedestrians may be generated. Each potential occluded pedestrian of the set is assigned a speed characteristic and a segment. The segments of the set of potential occluded pedestrians may be updated over time using the assigned speed characteristics. Sensor data from a perception system of the vehicle is received, and one or more potential occluded pedestrians an having an updated assigned segment corresponding to a segment that is visible to a perception system of the vehicle may be removed from the set of potential occluded pedestrians. After the removing, the set may be used to control the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode.