There is disclosed system to warn a driver about driving laws and/or conditions. Optionally, the system includes a database of traffic laws, for example indexed according to location and/or time and/or conditions. For example, the device may display a speed limit reflecting local conditions such as weather, construction, school hours. In some embodiments, warnings may be customized to a particular vehicle and/or driver. In some embodiments, the system may warn a third party about driving behavior and/or legal infringements.

There is provided a vehicle comprising a body having an exterior, an external display screen visible on the exterior of the body, a proximity sensor, a non-transitory memory storing an executable code and a vehicle information database including vehicle information, and a hardware processor executing the executable code to detect, using the proximity sensor, an individual within a proximity of the vehicle, activate the external display screen in response to detecting the individual within the proximity of the vehicle, display, on the external display screen, the vehicle information from the vehicle information database stored in the memory, in response to detecting the individual within the proximity of the vehicle.

A sound output and text display device for a vehicle, including: an output unit that, in a case in which sound to be output inside the vehicle has been decided, outputs the sound inside the vehicle; and a display unit that displays text corresponding to the sound on a windshield in accordance with a state of use of the vehicle.

An agent device includes: a plurality of agent function units, each of the plurality of agent function units being configured to provide services including outputting a response to an output unit in response to an utterance of an occupant of a vehicle; a recognizer configured to recognize a request included in the occupant's utterance; and an agent selector configured to output a request recognized by the recognizer to the plurality of agent function units and select an agent function unit which outputs a response to the occupant's utterance to the output unit among the plurality of agent function units on the basis of the result of a response of each of the plurality of agent function units.

Embodiments are directed towards providing a dynamic application environment where separate components of an application can execute on separate processing hardware at any given point in time. A host device monitors current operating characteristics associated with a computing device, such a head unit of an automobile, and based on those characteristics selects which components of one or more applications to execute on the computing device and which components to execute on the host device, if any. The host device provides the selected components to the computing device for execution by the computing device and the host device executes any other components that are not executed by the computing device. The host device monitors the current operating characteristics associated with the computing device, and modifies the selection of which components are executing on which device based on changes in current operating characteristics.

One or more embodiments include techniques for automating vehicle routines. The techniques include receiving a rule that includes one or more deterministic elements and a machine learning element; collecting, during operation of the vehicle, a set of vehicle data based on the machine learning element; training a machine learning model that corresponds to the machine learning element using the set of vehicle data, wherein the machine learning model is used to process the machine learning element during execution of the rule.

An object of the present invention is to display a list of traffic information of a plurality of lanes. A map display device of the present invention includes a traffic information acquisition unit that acquires traffic information for a road including a plurality of lanes for each lane, and a display control unit that creates a road map image that represents a road for each lane using map data having lane link data, and causes a display device mounted on a vehicle to display thereof, in which the display control unit superimposes the traffic information on the corresponding lane in the road map image.

A system and a method of managing contact information of a terminal recognized by a vehicle include: a communication unit, which communicates with one or more terminals located in a vehicle and recognizes the terminal, and which receives information stored in the recognized terminal; a connection confirming unit which confirms a function, to which the terminal recognized through the communication unit is connected through communication, among the functions provided by an Audio, Video, and Navigation (AVN) system of the vehicle; a priority calculating unit, which calculates a priority of the terminal with respect to other terminals according to the connection between the terminal confirmed by the connection confirming unit and the function provided by the AVN system and generates priority list information for maintaining contact information stored in the terminal; and a contact information renewing unit, which downloads and stores the contact information stored in the terminal in a linked database according to the priority list information generated by the priority calculating unit or deletes the contact information stored in the database.

A traffic light information providing apparatus, a vehicle system including the same, and a method thereof may include: a storage configured to accumulate and store intersection traffic light information; and a processor configured to convert turn-on information of a traffic light of an intersection in front of a vehicle into a database in the storage during driving of the vehicle, and configured to pre-provide a user with traffic light information at the intersection or traffic light information at a crosswalk in a turning direction before or while passing through the intersection based on the converted database of the turn-on information of the intersection traffic light.

An input/output device is connected, via an in-vehicle communication network, to a control device for controlling a motor provided in an electric power steering apparatus that is provided in a vehicle. The input/output device generates an excitation start instruction signal for starting excitation in the motor on the basis of an externally input excitation start instruction, transmits the generated excitation start instruction signal to the control device over the in-vehicle communication network, and receives response data relating to the excitation of the electric power steering apparatus, the response data being detected by the control device while the excitation is underway, from the control device over the in-vehicle communication network.