The present invention is to obtain a control device and a control method capable of appropriately assisting driving of a straddle-type vehicle by a rider.

In a control device (12) and a control method of the present invention, an acquisition section of the control device (12) configured to control an operation of a straddle-type vehicle (10) acquires prediction information about a future lane change by a preceding vehicle that travels ahead of the straddle-type vehicle (10), and a control section of the control device (12) causes the straddle-type vehicle (10) to execute a safety operation (for example, causes a notification device (15) to issue a warning of the lane change to the rider), when the prediction information satisfies a determination criterion during a slipping-through traveling of the straddle-type vehicle (10).

A vehicle driving assistance apparatus predicts (i) a first consumed energy amount corresponding to a consumed energy amount consumed by a driving apparatus of an own vehicle when executing a first following control and (ii) a second consumed energy amount corresponding to the consumed energy amount consumed by the driving apparatus of the own vehicle when executing the second following control. The apparatus executes the second following control when the second consumed energy amount is smaller than the first consumed energy amount. On the other hand, the apparatus executes the first following control when the second consumed energy amount is equal to or greater than the first consumed energy amount.

A vehicle control system includes a vehicle estimator and a stop position setter. The vehicle estimator is configured to make determination on whether an entering vehicle entering an oncoming lane from an intersecting road is present, and estimate an overall length of the entering vehicle upon determining that the entering vehicle is present. The intersecting road intersects a traveling road where a vehicle to which the vehicle control system is applied is traveling. The stop position setter is configured to set a stop position of the vehicle based on the determination made by the vehicle estimator as to whether the entering vehicle is present and the estimated overall length of the entering vehicle.

An autonomous vehicle (AV) includes features that allows the AV to comply with applicable regulations and statues for performing safe driving operation. An example method for operating the AV includes determining a trajectory related information of a vehicle operating on a roadway on which the AV is operating; receiving sensor data of a first area that includes the vehicle; determining an additional trajectory related information for the AV by comparing the trajectory related information of the vehicle to a current trajectory related information of the AV, wherein the additional trajectory related information is based on a category to which the vehicle belongs, and wherein the additional trajectory related information allows the AV to maintain at least a distance between the AV and the vehicle; and causing the AV to operate in accordance with the additional trajectory related information.

A controlling and warning system based on traffic conditions feedback and a method thereof are disclosed. In the controlling and warning system, a camera disposed on a rear of a vehicle body is configured to generate and transmit a rear video to a controlling host, and the controlling host identifies a vehicle object in the rear video and calculates a separation distance between the vehicle object and the vehicle body; the vehicle object is inputted into a large-sized vehicle recognition model which is built based on artificial intelligence neural network and trained completely, to recognize whether the vehicle object is a large-sized vehicle; when the vehicle object is recognized as the large-sized vehicle and the separation distance reaches to a safe distance, a warning signal is generated. Therefore, the technical effect of improving the warning immediacy of an approaching large vehicle can be achieved.

Systems, apparatus and methods may be configured to implement actively-controlled light emission from a robotic vehicle. A light emitter(s) of the robotic vehicle may be configurable to indicate a direction of travel of the robotic vehicle and/or display information (e.g., a greeting, a notice, a message, a graphic, passenger/customer/client content, vehicle livery, customized livery) using one or more colors of emitted light (e.g., orange for a first direction and purple for a second direction), one or more sequences of emitted light (e.g., a moving image/graphic), or positions of light emitter(s) on the robotic vehicle (e.g., symmetrically positioned light emitters). The robotic vehicle may not have a front or a back (e.g., a trunk/a hood) and may be configured to travel bi-directionally, in a first direction or a second direction (e.g., opposite the first direction), with the direction of travel being indicated by one or more of the light emitters.

A driving assistance device configured to execute deceleration assistance for a driver's vehicle when the driver's vehicle turns right or left at an intersection is configured to recognize, based on a detection result from an external sensor of the driver's vehicle, an adjacent vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to a traveling lane of the driver's vehicle, determine whether the adjacent vehicle turns in the same direction of the driver's vehicle at the intersection based on the detection result from the external sensor when the adjacent vehicle is recognized and the driver's vehicle turns right or left at the intersection, and execute the deceleration assistance to cause a vehicle-to-vehicle distance between the driver's vehicle and the adjacent vehicle to reach a distance equal to or larger than a target driver's vehicle-to-adjacent vehicle distance when the driving assistance device determines that the adjacent vehicle turns in the same direction.

The present invention relates to a method for avoiding collisions of a moving vehicle with other road users in the surroundings of the vehicle, comprising at least the method steps of: a) detecting, by means of one or more sensors, the vehicle surroundings and the other road users located therein; b) dividing the vehicle surroundings into a plurality of occupied areas; c) classifying the other road users detected in method step a), wherein, by means of the classification, at least one road user group is assigned to each of the other road users; d) prioritising the road user classified in method step c), taking into account both the classification carried out in method step c) and the occupied area defined in method step b), wherein road users from one or more predetermined road user groups in the particular occupied area are given a high priority and road users from other, non-predetermined road user groups in the particular occupied area are given a lower priority; and e) determining the probability of collision of the other road users with the vehicle, wherein the collision probability is determined in accordance with the prioritisation carried out in method step d) and the collision probability of the other road users having a high priority is determined first; f) changing or maintaining the current driving behaviour of the vehicle on the basis of the collision probabilities determined in method step e).

A method for minimizing disturbance due to wind forces of a trailer being towed by a vehicle. The method also includes receiving, at a data processing hardware data from a sensor system for the tow vehicle. The method also includes determining, at the data processing hardware, a passing object profile. The method also includes predicting, at the data processing hardware, a wind force profile based upon the sensor data the passing object profile. The method also includes determining, at the data processing hardware, at least one preventative action for the vehicle to minimize the effect of disturbance on the trailer.

The driving assistance apparatus comprises a camera device configured to obtain a camera image by taking a picture of a predetermined area ahead of a host vehicle; and a control unit configured to drive the host vehicle so as to cause an acceleration of the host vehicle to become equal to a follow-up acceleration to make an inter vehicle distance to a preceding vehicle coincide with a target inter vehicle distance. When the preceding vehicle is a large-size vehicle, the control unit obtains the target inter vehicle distance for causing a traffic-signal-equipment-distance indicative of a distance to a traffic signal equipment of when the traffic signal equipment is detected above the preceding vehicle in the camera image to be longer than a stop-required-distance for which the host vehicle travels until the host vehicle stops under the assumption that the host vehicle decelerates at a predetermined deceleration.