Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for autonomous vehicle negotiation based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication, the method including requesting, by vehicles that enter a driving negotiation section, a driving negotiation token, acquiring, by a vehicle that enters the driving negotiation section first, among the entering vehicles, the driving negotiation token, performing driving negotiation based on whether the driving negotiation token is acquired, and returning, by a vehicle having acquired the driving negotiation token, the driving negotiation token when the vehicle arrives at a destination.

A prediction method and apparatus for an autonomous driving manual takeover, and a system are provided. One example method includes: A first vehicle sends a first message to a second vehicle when detecting that the first vehicle has a manual takeover requirement, where the first message includes information about a first location of the first vehicle, and the information about the first location is used to indicate a location of the first vehicle when the first vehicle detects that the first vehicle has the manual takeover requirement.

The present disclosure relates to a method for predicting a behavior of a target vehicle in a maneuvering space, in which a plurality of maneuvers which can be executed in the future are provided for the target vehicle, in the maneuvering space, the target vehicle located in the maneuvering space being observed by a plurality of observation vehicles, for each maneuver of the target vehicle that can be executed in the future, a single probability distribution for the relevant maneuver that can be executed in the future being determined, on the basis of an observation performed by a relevant observation vehicle, for each maneuver of the target vehicle that can be executed in the future, a total probability distribution for the relevant maneuver of the target vehicle that can be executed in the future being established from a plurality of single probability distributions.

A transient virtual chatroom is implemented by which unknown drivers can temporarily engage in conversation while driving. The chatrooms are dynamically generated among two or more drivers based on a variety of factors, including the distance between the drivers, the direction in which cars are driving, the roads on which the cars are on, the speed of vehicles, and typical scenarios that indicate a desire for two or more drivers to engage in conversation. Such transient chatrooms can increase safety by enabling drivers to understand other drivers' intentions. For example, drivers can directly tell someone who can go first at a stop sign, which direction the driver is trying to go in, whether there is an emergency (e.g., personal or with their vehicle), whether a driver is changing lanes, notify a user of merging from an on-ramp, etc.

Informed towing is provided. Towing information is identified, by a towing vehicle, with respect to a towed vehicle to be towed by the towing vehicle. A towed configuration of the towed vehicle is monitored. Responsive to the towed configuration of the towed vehicle being incorrect according to the towing information, a warning is displayed in the HMI indicating the incorrect towing configuration.

Systems and methods for an On-Demand Autonomy (ODA) service. The system includes a selection module of a leader vehicle (Lv) connected to an ODA server to determine whether to confirm a request for an on-demand autonomy (ODA) service which has been broadcast wherein the ODA service request includes control of a follower vehicle (Fv) to a requested location by creating a virtual link between the Lv and the Fv to configure a vehicle platoon to enable transport of the Fv by the Lv wherein the vehicle platoon is a linking of the Lv to the Fv via the virtual link to enable the Lv to assume the control of the Fv to the requested location.

Provided is a navigation system for a leader vehicle leading follower vehicles, including: the leader vehicle, configured to transmit, real-time movement data to follower vehicles; and, the follower vehicles, each comprising: a signal receiver for receiving the data from the leader vehicle; sensors configured to detect at least one maneuverability condition; a memory; a vehicle maneuver controller; a distance sensor; and a processor configured to: determine a route for navigating the local follower vehicle from an initial location; determine a preferred range of distances from the vehicle in front of the respective follower vehicle that the respective follower vehicle should stay within; determine a set of active maneuvering instructions for the respective follower vehicle based on at least a portion of the data received from the guiding vehicle; determine a lag in control commands; and, execute the set of active maneuvering instructions in the respective follower vehicle.

A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a motion status of a vehicle, a control device, plurality of data acquisition sensors, and one or more alerting device activation circuits. The communication system is customizable with the plurality of data acquisition sensors and one or more alerting device activation circuits based upon the needs of the vehicle.

A control system for a vehicle includes an engine controller operable to determine a requested engine torque in response to a cruise control set command and a cruise control offset value, determine an engine torque command in response to the requested engine torque and a torque limit, and control operation of an engine in response to the engine torque command. The control system also includes a platooning controller operable to determine and provide to the engine controller the cruise control set command, the cruise control offset value and the torque limit effective to cause the engine controller to control the engine to provide a desired following distance between the vehicle and a second vehicle.

System for automatically recognising anomalous situations along roads travelled by motor-vehicles for intelligent motor-vehicle driving speed control along roads.

The motor-vehicles are configured to transmit data allowing anomalous situations to be recognised along roads travelled by the motor-vehicles.

The system comprises data processing resources configured to:

receive and process data transmitted by the motor-vehicles to recognise anomalous situations along the roads travelled by the motor-vehicles based on a recognition algorithm,

when anomalous situations are recognised along roads travelled by the motor-vehicles, generate associated alert events and compute reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations, and

transmit data representative of the alert events and of the reference driving speeds along the roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations.

The motor-vehicles are further configured to:

receive data representative of alert events and reference driving speeds, and

use the received data to implement one or both of the following actions: inform the drivers of motor-vehicles, through automotive user interfaces of motor-vehicles of the anomalous situations recognised along roads travelled by motor-vehicles, and cause current driving speeds of the motor-vehicles to be adjusted to the reference driving speeds along roads recognised to be affected by anomalous situations.