Provided is a notification control apparatus for a vehicle configured to determine, based on surrounding information and an operation state of an operation unit, whether there exists a possibility that an own vehicle turns toward a specific direction while an oncoming vehicle is approaching, to determine, when affirmative determination is made, based on vehicle information including at least one of a steering input value or presence/absence of a brake operation and a vehicle speed, whether a possibility that the own vehicle completes crossing of an opposing lane or an intersection after elapse of a reference period is high, and when affirmative determination is made, to execute the notification control when a virtual passing period required for the own vehicle to virtually pass the oncoming vehicle is a lower limit period or longer and an upper limit period or shorter, the upper limit period being the reference period or shorter.

Aspects of the disclosure provide for determining when to provide and providing secondary disengage alerts for a vehicle having autonomous and manual driving modes. For instance, while the vehicle is being controlled in the autonomous driving mode, user input is received at one or more user input devices of the vehicle. In response to receiving the user input, the vehicle may be transitioned from the autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode and provide a primary disengage alert to an occupant of the vehicle regarding the transition. Whether to provide a secondary disengage alert may be determined based on at least circumstances of the user input. After the transition, the secondary disengage alert may be provided based on the determination.

A method for monitoring the environment of a vehicle includes evaluating physical measurement data obtained from the environment of the vehicle to determine whether at least one person is approaching the vehicle, how many people approach the vehicle may also be recorded. The method includes evaluating physical measurement data obtained from the environment of the vehicle to determine whether at least one person is moving away from the vehicle and, if appropriate, the number of people that are moving away from the vehicle is also recorded. The method further includes carrying out a check as to whether the number of people that have moved away from the vehicle corresponds to the number of people that have previously approached the vehicle. In response to the check resulting in a difference, it is determined that the vehicle is in an unsafe state.

A method for providing assistance in driving includes capturing an image of a second moving vehicle when a first moving vehicle is moving and obtaining basic information of the second moving vehicle according to the image thereof, the basic information of the second moving vehicle comprising weight information of the second moving vehicle. Driving information of the first moving vehicle is obtained, and a safe distance between the first moving vehicle and the second moving vehicle is determined according to the driving information of the first moving vehicle and the basic information of the second moving vehicle. The current distance between the first moving vehicle and the second moving vehicle is detected, and a warning is output if the distance between the first moving vehicle and the second moving vehicle is less than the safe distance.

The invention relates to an interactive system (1) with a user (U) occupying a motor vehicle (100) comprising an interface (3) and an operating system for executing an application. According to the invention, the interactive system (1) comprises a measuring device (5) comprising at least one sensor that is configured to acquire at least one physiological parameter of the user (U), and an embedded processing unit (7). The processing unit (7) comprises an interpretation module that is configured to receive the physiological parameter and to define, on the basis of the physiological parameter, a datum representative of the physiological or emotional state of the user (U), and an analysis module that is configured to compare data representative of the physiological or emotional state of the user (U) before and during the execution of an application for managing a remediation exercise, and to adjust at least one parameter of the remediation exercise according to the results of the comparison. The invention also relates to an interaction method implemented at least partly by such an interactive system.

To obtain a rider-assistance system capable of providing a rider of a straddle-type vehicle with a sense of comfort and safety during a turn, and a control method for such a rider-assistance system.

The present invention provides the rider-assistance system that assists with driving by the rider of the straddle-type vehicle and includes a controller. The controller includes: an object identification section that identifies an object approaching a side of the straddle-type vehicle on the basis of output of a communication device that wirelessly receives information output from infrastructure equipment or another vehicle; a body position information acquisition section that acquires position information of at least a part of a body of the rider on the turning straddle-type vehicle; a collision possibility determination section that determines a collision possibility of the rider with the object identified by the object identification section on the basis of the position information acquired by the body position information acquisition section; and a safety operation performing section that causes the rider-assistance system to perform safety operation in the case where the collision possibility determination section determines that the collision possibility is high.

Provided is a vehicle control device capable of preventing a delay in driver's bank angle operation during traveling of a straddle type vehicle on a curve and enhancing safety of the vehicle. The vehicle control device 100 is a device that is mounted on a two-wheeled motor vehicle and controls the vehicle to travel while following a preceding vehicle. The vehicle control device 100 includes a curvature acquisition unit 110 that acquires a curvature of a road in front of the vehicle and a driving force control unit 120 that limits a change amount of driving force of the vehicle per unit time based on the curvature acquired by the curvature acquisition unit 110.

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and method for controlling a brake system based on a driver's forward gaze.

The present teaching relates to method, system, and medium, for generating an augmented alert in a hybrid vehicle. First information indicating an upcoming switch in an operating mode of the vehicle is received, which specifies a set of tasks, arranged in an order, to be completed by a driver in the vehicle to achieve the upcoming switch, and a task duration for each of the set of tasks by which the task is to be completed. A current state of the driver is obtained and used to determine a set of warnings to alert the driver to perform the set of tasks. Each warning corresponds to a task in the set of tasks and is created based on the current state of the driver. A warning schedule is generated based on the set of warnings in the order of the set of tasks and transmitted so that warnings in the warning schedule are delivered to the driver.

A vehicle cleaning system is provided including a foreign object detection section configured to detect a foreign object present on a windshield, a foreign object removal device configured to clean the windshield to remove the foreign object, an actuation notification section configured to notify a user of actuation of the foreign object removal device, and a control section that, when the foreign object detection section has detected the foreign object, controls the actuation notification section so as to notify of actuation of the foreign object removal device before controlling the foreign object removal device so as to clean the windshield.