Methods and systems for distributed detection of road conditions and damage are described. In one embodiment, a method for distributed detection of road conditions and damage is provided. The method includes receiving, from one or more mobile devices, a plurality of reports of anomalies associated with roads in a geographic area. The method also includes storing the received reports of anomalies in a database and comparing each report of an anomaly to stored reports of previous anomalies in the database. The method further includes determining whether each report of an anomaly indicates road damage or a temporary problem. The method includes generating a prioritized list of locations of anomalies associated with one or more roads that have been determined to have road damage that needs maintenance and/or repair.

Driver safety, vehicle safety, and environment safety may be scored based on a variety of input data concerning a driver, a vehicle, or an environment in which the vehicle drives. An overall safety score may be generated based on at least some of these three scores. These scores may be compared to thresholds to trigger or initiate actions such as providing notifications to drivers, raising or reducing vehicle insurance rates, providing coupons and promotions to drivers, or limiting vehicle speed in a manner that is personalized to the driver and/or vehicle and/or environment.

A hybrid power drive system, including a power battery device, a range extender system, and a motor drive system. The power battery device is configured to supply power to the motor drive system. The range extender system includes an engine and a generator. The generator is able to generate power under the driving of the engine to supply the power to the motor drive system and/or charge the power battery device. The hybrid power drive system further includes a vehicle control unit configured to control the engine and/or generator of the range extender system to generate a driving force. The range extender system is mechanically connected to a main coupling mechanism to transmit the generated driving force to a main drive axle of a vehicle by means of the main coupling mechanism to drive wheels on both sides of the axle to rotate. Also provided is a vehicle having the hybrid power drive system. According to the hybrid power drive system and the vehicle having same, the vehicle control unit is utilized to control the engine and/or generator of the range extender system to generate the driving force for different application operating conditions, and thus the economy of the vehicle can be effectively improved.

A work vehicle includes a first detection unit that detects an optical beam emitted from a beam projector disposed at one end of a reference travel path, a first position deviation calculation section that calculates position deviation by a vehicle body from the reference travel path based on a detection signal from the first detection unit, a second detection unit that detects a work boundary line that occurs due to work travel, a second position deviation calculation section that calculates position deviation of the vehicle body traveling along successive travel paths from the work boundary line based on a detection signal from the second detection unit, and a steering information generation section that, based on the position deviation calculated by the first position deviation calculation section and the second position deviation calculation section, generates steering information for correcting the position deviation.

A collision avoidance system may validate, reject, or replace a trajectory generated to control a vehicle. The collision avoidance system may comprise a secondary perception component that may receive sensor data, receive and/or determine a corridor associated with operation of a vehicle, classify a portion of the sensor data associated with the corridor as either ground or an object, determine a position and/or velocity of at least the nearest object, determine a threshold distance associated with the vehicle, and control the vehicle based at least in part on the position and/or velocity of the nearest object and the threshold distance.

Disclosed herein is a method and system for dynamically generating a secure navigation path for navigation of an autonomous vehicle. The method comprises detecting disproportional acceleration of the autonomous vehicle when the autonomous vehicle is navigating from a source point to a destination point based on a predefined trajectory plan. The method comprises determining direction values of the autonomous vehicle for reaching a secure path point in the predefined trajectory plan. Based on the determined direction values, distance values are determined. The method includes detecting position of the secure path point for navigation of the autonomous vehicle based on the determined direction values and the distance values. The present disclosure uses secure path point to realign the autonomous vehicle in the predefined trajectory plan to overcome the disproportional acceleration of the autonomous vehicle due to narrow roads, upward slope, or downward slope.

A system for controlling platooning by a following vehicle includes a sensor located in or on the following vehicle configured to detect data corresponding to a shape of a leading vehicle. The system further includes an electronic control unit (ECU) located in or on the following vehicle, coupled to the sensor, and configured to determine an optimal distance from the following vehicle to the leading vehicle based on the shape of the leading vehicle, the optimal distance corresponding to a distance at which drag applied to the following vehicle is reduced based on a pressure wake from the leading vehicle.

Disclosed are a device and a method for improving the fuel efficiency of a fuel cell vehicle in uphill and downhill driving. The device may calculate an appropriate stack output to be generated from a fuel cell stack based on the SOC of a battery as well as an uphill altitude at which the vehicle traveling on the uphill road has to travel further to reach the highest altitude when determining the degree of the stack output generated from the fuel cell stack when driving on the uphill road, and may prevent fuel consumption from increasing to generate excessive stack output while driving on an uphill road or the durability of the fuel cell stack from being deteriorated.

A method for improving the ride comfort of a transportation vehicle including planning a first driving route by a navigation system; automatically detecting at least one road parameter of the first driving route by a sensor system of the transportation vehicle; automatically evaluating the first driving route in view of the ride comfort of the first driving route by taking into account the road parameter; and in response thereto using the first driving route or planning an alternative driving route.

The present disclosure relates to an eco-friendly vehicle in which valet mode can be controlled with detailed control levels, and a method for controlling the same mode. A method for controlling valet mode of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises determining whether an entry condition for the valet mode to be satisfied, determining, if the condition being satisfied, one level among a plurality of levels for the valet mode based on at least one of a vehicle state and a driving environment and performing a vehicle control according to the determined level, wherein the plurality of levels are different from one another in whether or not a restriction to be made to at least part of a powertrain and a function or a degree of the restriction.