Abstract: A tow hook assembly is detachably mounted to a frame member of a vehicle. The tow hook assembly includes a housing and a tow hook. The housing has a front wall with a front surface and an aperture formed in the front wall. The tow hook at least partially extends through the aperture and is movable between an extended position and a retracted position, in the extend position the tow hook extends farther outward from the housing than in the retracted position. The tow hook is configured to move from the extended position to the retracted position upon application of a force exceeding a first threshold. The housing is configured to disengage from the frame member upon an application of a force exceeding a second threshold greater than the first threshold.

Abstract: The power storage system includes a power converter, a plurality of assembled batteries, and a control device. When there is a first assembled battery in which a predetermined time has elapsed since the previous full charge of the plurality of assembled batteries when each of the assembled batteries is charged, the control device charges the first assembled battery until the full charge, and adjusts the storage amount of the second assembled battery other than the first assembled battery in the plurality of assembled batteries so that the sum of the storage amounts after the charge of each of the assembled batteries becomes a predetermined amount.

Abstract: An example operation includes starting, by a vehicle, a timer when a pairing request is initiated; receiving, by the vehicle, a first response to the pairing request from a first device and a second response to the pairing request from a second device; recording the timer when each of the first response and the second response are received; determining a first connection time, from the recorded timer, for the first device, and determining a second connection time, from the recorded timer, for the second device; and connecting, by the vehicle, to a device having a fastest connection time among the first device and the second device.

Abstract: A vehicle image display system includes: a display device for displaying a digital image which is an image based on image data, a dark condition determination unit for determining whether a dark condition is satisfied with respect to the brightness of a surrounding environment of the vehicle, a luminance determination unit for determining whether the image data includes a high luminance pixel, a pixel value determination unit for determining whether a pixel having a pixel value equal to or lower than a second threshold value is not included in a peripheral pixel, and an image adjustment unit for performing a first brightness adjustment process for reducing the brightness of the image data when the dark condition is satisfied and the image data includes a high luminance pixel and the peripheral pixel does not include a pixel having a pixel value equal to or lower than the second threshold value.

Abstract: A power electronics assembly includes a circuit board assembly including a first electrically insulating layer, an electrically insulating substrate, a laminate panel provided between the first electrically insulating layer and the electrically insulating substrate, and one or more electrically conductive layers provided within the electrically insulating substrate. The laminate panel includes a power electronics device assembly including an S-cell and a power electronics device. The S-cell includes a graphite layer and a metal layer encasing the graphite layer. A recess is formed in an outer surface of the metal layer and the power electronics device is disposed within the recess of the outer surface of the S-cell.

Abstract: A power electronics assembly, power electronics device assemblies, and a cold plate incorporating power electronics device assemblies are disclosed. The power electronics assembly includes a cold plate including a power electronics device assembly including an S-cell and a power electronics device. The S-cell includes a first graphite layer a second graphite layer and a metal layer encasing the first graphite layer and the second graphite layer. A recess is formed in an outer surface of the metal layer. The power electronics device is disposed within the recess of the outer surface of the S-cell.

Abstract: A power storage cell includes an electrode assembly, a cell case, and an external terminal. The cell case has a case main body and a lid. The lid has a lid main body connected to an opening of the case main body and charged positively or negatively in the electrode assembly, and a short-circuit member connected to the lid main body, the short-circuit member being able to short-circuit the lid main body and the external terminal. The external terminal includes a terminal plate. The short-circuit member includes an elastic portion made of a conductive resin. The elastic portion is separated from the terminal plate when an internal pressure of the cell case is less than a predetermined pressure, and is elastically deformed to come into contact with the terminal plate when the internal pressure of the cell case is equal to or more than the predetermined pressure.

Abstract: An in-vehicle seat includes a seat back, a seat cushion, and an anchor for fixing a child seat. The seat cushion has a seat cushion base, a seat cushion pad that is removable from the seat cushion, and a supporting panel. The supporting panel is provided between the seat cushion base and the seat cushion pad, and serves as a placement face for the child seat. The anchor is provided at a position at which the anchor is covered and hidden by the seat cushion pad, and at which the anchor is externally exposed when the seat cushion pad is removed from the seat cushion. A guide groove that guides a linking portion protruding from the child seat to the anchor is provided in the supporting panel.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a detection system used in a case where a transport robot transports a package in a state where the package in which an opening portion of a container is closed by a lid is placed on a placing portion of the transport robot. The detection system is configured to detect that the lid is opened.

Abstract: A control device for a hybrid electric vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to perform a start-up control of shifting the connection and disconnection clutch to a coupled state at the time of starting the internal combustion engine to rotate the internal combustion engine by the driving torque of the electric motor, and starting the first fuel injection mode using the direct injection injector. The electronic control unit is configured to switch from the first fuel injection mode to a second fuel injection mode for using the port injector prior to an end of the start-up control when the number of times of combustion cycles of the internal combustion engine with the first fuel injection mode reaches a predetermined first target number of times.

Abstract: A tonneau cover for a vehicle has a topside and an underside. The tonneau cover also includes a rail system attached to the underside. The tonneau cover also includes a ramp system. The ramp system is slidably engaged with the rail system and is configured to slide out from the underside along the rail system such that a rear end of the ramp system engages a ground surface to create a rampway between the topside and the ground surface. The ramp system can be used to load large cargo onto the topside of the tonneau cover. The ramp system is also removable from the rail system and attachable to an end of a truck bed of the vehicle such that the ramp system can be used to load cargo into the truck bed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling the speed of a vehicle, the method comprising: determining a speed limit; determining an offset value based on (i) the speed limit, and (ii) a speed map, the speed map comprising a plurality of entries, each entry associating one of the offset values with a respective speed limit; and setting the speed of the vehicle according to the speed limit and the determined offset value.

Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: determine content to be superimposed and displayed over an object on a first display unit fixed to a moving body or a second display unit worn on a human body, the object being a real image seen through the first display unit or the second display unit; select either the first display unit or the second display unit to display the content based on a predetermined condition; and superimpose and display the content over the object on the first display unit or the second display unit, the first display unit or the second display unit being selected to display the content.

Abstract: A display control device includes a processor. The processor identifies an attraction target that guides a line of sight of an occupant, acquires the line of sight of the occupant, and causes a display unit attached to an eyeball of the occupant to display a guidance display that guides the line of sight of the occupant to the attraction target based on positional relationship between the line of sight of the occupant and the attraction target.

Abstract: A vehicle light-adjusting system capable of adjusting the brightness in a vehicle interior day and night and appropriately performing light-adjustment for each of occupants. The vehicle light-adjusting system includes an incident portion which external light enters, a light-adjusting member arranged in the incident portion, a light emitting unit provided in an interior of the vehicle, and a control unit. The control unit controls transmittance of the light-adjusting member and controls illuminance of the light emitting unit. The light-adjusting member is divided into a plurality of parts. The control unit is capable of adjusting an individual transmittance of each of the parts.

Abstract: A vehicle includes a hood. The hood includes a hood outer and a hood inner. The hood inner has a plate shape, covers a lower surface of the hood outer, and is made of resin. A space is provided between the hood outer and the hood inner. The hood inner includes a shock absorbing portion that is bent so as to project toward the space. The shock absorbing portion has a central portion located at a center of the shock absorbing portion in a right-left direction of the vehicle and side portions located on respective sides of the central portion in the right-left direction. A thickness of the hood inner in the central portion is thicker than a thickness of the hood inner in the side portions.

Abstract: Systems and methods for trajectory planning for an autonomous vehicle, may include: computing features for each of the plurality of candidate trajectories; computing scores for the features of the candidate trajectories, wherein the scores are based on parameter values associated with their corresponding final trajectories; determining, based on the computed scores, a trajectory of the candidate trajectories to be used as a warm-start trajectory for trajectory optimization and applying the warm-start trajectory to develop a final trajectory for the vehicle; and autonomously operating the autonomous vehicle in accordance with the final trajectory.

Abstract: An outrigger coupled to a cab frame. The outrigger including a base wall, a first side wall, an opposite second side wall, a reinforcement flange, and a reinforcement bracket. The first side wall and the opposite second side wall extend from the base wall. Each of the first side wall and the second side wall include an interior edge, an opposite exterior edge, and an inner surface. The reinforcement flange extends along the exterior edge of the first side wall, the second edge, and the exterior edge of the second side wall. The reinforcement bracket is coupled to the interior edge of the first side wall and the interior edge of the second side wall.

Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder head, a wire assembly including multiple wire harnesses and a protector that holds the wire harnesses together, a sound absorber, and an engine cover. The engine cover is attached to the cylinder head in a state in which the wire assembly and the sound absorber are held between the cylinder head and the engine cover to elastically deform the sound absorber. The protector is held in a state of being pressed against the cylinder head by a restoring force of the sound absorber. The sound absorber includes a contact region pressed against the protector. The sound absorber includes an engagement portion located at an edge of the contact region. The engagement portion is thicker than the thickness of the contact region. The engagement portion is adjacent to a side surface of the protector.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a processor and memory. The memory stores relation-defining data for defining a relation between a state of a vehicle and an action variable that is a variable relating to operations of a transmission installed in the vehicle. The processor is configured to execute acquisition processing, operation processing, reward calculation processing, updating processing, counting processing, and limiting processing. The processor is configured to output the relation-defining data updated so that an expected income is increased when the transmission is operated following the relation-defining data, based on an updating map.

Abstract: A mobile body system for managing a mobile body that moves within a predetermined area includes a mobile body associated with a guest group including one or more guests, and a managing apparatus configured to manage an outer appearance of the mobile body. The managing apparatus includes an activity collector configured to collect activity information indicative of an activity of the guest within the predetermined area, and an outer appearance manager configured to change the outer appearance of the mobile body viewed by the guest based on the activity information collected by the activity collector.

Abstract: A communication apparatus is mounted on a vehicle together with a control apparatus configured to accept, from a device electrically connected to a connector on the vehicle, a communication request to request transmission of data and transmit a communication response including the data to the device. The communication apparatus includes a communication interface configured to sequentially transmit two or more communication requests to the control apparatus, and in a case in which a communication response corresponding to at least one of transmitted communication requests is received from the control apparatus, transmit data included in the received communication response to a server apparatus installed in a location different from the vehicle, and a controller configured to determine whether a device to be detected is electrically connected to the connector depending on whether the communication interface has received a communication response corresponding to each of the two or more communication requests.

Abstract: An automated driving vehicle includes: a communication device which receives a traveling plan from an operation management device provided outside an vehicle; and an automated driving controller which allows an vehicle the controller is associated with to travel autonomously along a traveling route on which a plurality of stations are set so as to fulfill the traveling plan, in which the automated driving controller has a standard plan which prescribes a standard operation schedule of the vehicle the controller is associated with, and the automated driving controller, in a case where the traveling plan has not arrived or is irregular, generates an interim plan on the basis of the standard plan, and allows the vehicle the controller is associated with to travel autonomously so as to fulfill the interim plan.

Abstract: The present disclosure promotes distribution of sensor data among a plurality of business operators. A controller that an information processing system according to the present disclosure includes collects first data including a plurality of items and personal information from mobile bodies belonging to a first business operator. The controller converts the first data to second data not being usable to identify individuals. The controller provides data in a range decided based on content of a predetermined data use contract, among the second data, to a second business operator. The controller calculates a consideration for the data that is to be paid by the second business operator, based on a data use record of the second business operator.

Abstract: The all-solid-state secondary battery of the disclosure comprises a positive electrode collector layer, a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a negative electrode layer and a negative electrode collector layer stacked in that order, wherein the positive electrode layer has a positive electrode active material layer and an insulating layer disposed around the perimeter edges of the positive electrode active material layer, and when the all-solid-state secondary battery is viewed from the stacking direction, the outer edges of the positive electrode active material layer on the solid electrolyte layer side are further inward than the outer edges of the positive electrode active material layer on the positive electrode collector layer side, and the outer edges of the positive electrode collector layer are further inward than the outer edges of the positive electrode active material layer on the positive electrode collector layer side.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery is obtained using a lithium composite oxide having a layered structure in a positive electrode active substance. An increase in resistance following repeated charging and discharging is suppressed. The battery includes a positive electrode provided with a positive electrode active substance layer, a negative electrode and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode active substance layer contains a porous particle lithium composite oxide having a layered structure. The average void ratio of the porous particle is not less than 12% but not more than 50%, and it contains two or more voids having diameters that are at least 8% of its particle diameter. The surface of the porous particle is provided with a coating of lithium tungstate. The coverage ratio of the surface of the porous particle by the lithium tungstate is not less than 10% but not more than 65%.

Abstract: A method of producing a negative electrode includes at least the following (A) to (C): (A) mixing powder consisting of lithium titanate oxide particles, a binder, and a solvent to prepare a particle-dispersed liquid; (B) granulating powder consisting of graphite-based particles by using the particle-dispersed liquid to prepare wet granules; and (C) forming the wet granules into a negative electrode composite material layer to produce a negative electrode. The negative electrode composite material layer is formed so as to include the lithium titanate oxide particles in an amount not lower than 2 mass % and not higher than 15 mass % of the total amount of the graphite-based particles and the lithium titanate oxide particles.

Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack and a control device that controls operation of the fuel cell system based on a measured voltage value measured by a voltage sensor. When the fuel cell system is started and a value measured by a temperature sensor is equal to or less than a temperature determined in advance, the control device raises the voltage of the fuel cell stack until a voltage condition determined in advance is met, by supplying a cathode with an oxidant gas before current sweep is started. The control device sets a voltage command value and a current command value such that an operation point of the fuel cell stack is on an equal power line of the fuel cell stack when the operation point is caused to transition in at least a part of a transition period.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of traveling, by a first transport, in a first lane, determining, by the first transport, that a speed of a second transport is greater than a speed of the first transport when the second transport is behind the first transport, determining, by the first transport, that no other transports are ahead of the first transport by a first distance in the first lane and beside the first transport by a second distance in a second lane, maneuvering, by the first transport, to the second lane allowing the second transport to pass the first transport in the first lane, and maneuvering, by the first transport, to the first lane when there are no other transports traveling in the first lane at a third distance behind the first transport and at or near the speed of the second transport.

Abstract: A method of producing a lithium-ion secondary battery includes the following (?) and (?): (?) preparing a lithium-ion secondary battery, the lithium-ion secondary battery including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte solution; and (?) adding a zwitterionic compound to the electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes at least a negative electrode active material and a film. The film is formed on a surface of the negative electrode active material. The film contains a lithium compound. The zwitterionic compound contains a phosphonium cation or an ammonium cation and a carboxylate anion in one molecule.

Abstract: An ECU of a vehicle monitors a charging state when charging is started. When a charging power supplied from a multi-outlet charger has changed without detecting and receiving an abnormality, the ECU causes a notification device to notify the changed charging power and a charging time based on the changed charging power. The ECU notifies a communication terminal which is owned by a user of the changed charging power and the charging time based on the changed charging power.

Abstract: A switch device includes a plurality of communication ports; a switch unit configured to relay a frame, which has been transmitted from a function unit and to which information including an ID of a VLAN is added, to another function unit via a communication port; and a duplication unit configured to, when the diagnosis device is connected to another switch device, duplicate the frame to be relayed via a designated communication port among the plurality of communication ports, and generate a duplicate frame for diagnosis that is a frame obtained by adding, to a duplicate frame obtained through the duplication, specific information indicating that the duplicate frame for diagnosis should be transmitted to the diagnosis device. The switch unit outputs the duplicate frame for diagnosis generated by the duplication unit from a communication port corresponding to the other switch device.

Abstract: A lifting system for generating a lifting force on a portion of a vehicle includes a vehicle wheel and a force-generating mechanism structured to be received inside a rim cavity of the wheel. The force-generating mechanism is also structured to be operably connected to a frame of a vehicle. A bearing member is operably connected to the force-generating mechanism. The bearing member is structured to transmit a force generated by the force-generating mechanism to a surface in physical contact with the bearing member. The bearing member is also structured for operably connecting the wheel to the force-generating mechanism. Force applied by the force-generating mechanism may be sufficient to lift a portion of the vehicle off of a ground surface, or the force may only be sufficient to apply a parking brake force without lifting the vehicle.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for forming remote vehicular micro clouds at one or more remote locations. According to some embodiments, the methods and systems comprise responsive to receiving a request to form a vehicular micro cloud from a client device, communicating with a plurality of vehicles within an area of a geographic location to collectively form a vehicular micro cloud at the geographic location, where client device is remote from the area of the geographic location. The methods and systems further include receiving resource data from the plurality of vehicles, the resource data comprising detection results of an environment surrounding the geographic location based on sensor sets of the plurality of vehicles, and transmitting the resource data to the client device.

Abstract: The negative electrode forms a honeycomb core. The honeycomb core includes a first face, a second face, a partition, and a circumferential wall. The second face faces the first face. The partition is formed between the first face and the second face. In a cross section parallel to the first face, the partition separates a plurality of hollow cells. The separator includes a first layer. The first layer covers at least part of the partition. The cross section parallel to the first face includes a central part and an inner circumferential part. The central part is surrounded by the inner circumferential part. In the central part, the hollow cells have a first average filling factor. In the inner circumferential part, the hollow cells have a second average filling factor. The second average filling factor is 2.1 times or more the first average filling factor.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for presenting in a hybrid electric vehicle display, proximate to or in some relation to each other, engine power usage, motor-generator power usage, and battery state of charge information. By combining the display of engine power usage, motor-generator power, and battery state of charge information, power distribution and related information may be presented to the operator of a vehicle to explain the vehicle's performance from a power split output and usage perspective. This can provide reassurance or confirmation that the vehicle is operating as it should, identify a problematic condition, etc.

Abstract: A regenerative braking control system for a vehicle can include one or more user interface elements located in a cabin of the vehicle. The user interface element(s) can correspond to a plurality of regenerative braking settings. Each of the regenerative braking setting(s) can correspond to a different amount of regenerative braking torque to apply to the wheel(s) of the vehicle. The system can include a processor operatively connected to the user interface element(s). The processor can be configured to detect a condition, the condition being at least one of a weight of the vehicle, a center of gravity of the vehicle, a weight of a trailer operatively connected to the vehicle, and a center of gravity of a trailer operatively connected to the vehicle. The processor can be configured to cause the amount of regenerative braking torque for the regenerative braking setting(s) to be adjusted based on the condition.

Abstract: A four-wheel drive vehicle includes: a drive-power distribution device for distributing a drive power from an engine to main and auxiliary drive wheels with a drive-power distribution ratio between the main drive wheels and auxiliary drive wheels; and a control apparatus for controlling an electric motor such that the drive-power distribution ratio becomes a target distribution ratio value, by setting an electric-current command value for driving an electric motor. The control apparatus is configured, in a drive-power transmitted state in which the drive power is transmitted to the drive-power distribution device, to execute a command-value reduction control operation for causing the electric motor to be driven with the electric-current command value being set to a value smaller than in a drive-power non-transmitted state in which the drive power is not being transmitted to the drive-power distribution device.

Abstract: A map information assessment device has a processor configured to match a plurality of first zones representing a first road in a first map, with second zones representing a second road in a second map, the matching being made by using locations on the second road that are closest to the starting points of the first zones as the starting points, and using zones having the same lengths as the first zones, as the second zones corresponding to the first zones, to calculate zone adjacent distances between the end points of the second zones and the starting points of other second zones adjacent to those second zones, and to determine that positional information for the first road in a first zone is different from positional information for the second road in a second zone corresponding to that first zone, when the zone adjacent distance is greater than a threshold.

Abstract: An operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to determine, in a case in which a first vehicle that has been operated in accordance with a schedule specifying a point in time at which a circulating vehicle is to be replaced becomes inoperable, whether to operate a second vehicle that substitutes for the first vehicle until a replacement time specified by the schedule, the replacement time being a point in time at which the first vehicle is to be replaced.

Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether to use engine start-stop systems during trail or other off-road driving are provided. Systems and methods may utilize various vehicle sensors (e.g., lidar, forward-facing cameras, accelerometers, sonar sensors, etc.) to detect when it is appropriate to command engine stop for fuel economy while driving off-road. To determine appropriateness, the vehicle may evaluate obstacles, ground clearance, and/or vehicle inclination. A method may include measuring accelerations/inclinations of a vehicle, comparing an acceleration value of each acceleration to an acceleration threshold, and disabling a start-stop system of the vehicle based on at least one acceleration value exceeding the acceleration threshold.

Abstract: A vehicle display control device, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to cause a display unit provided in a vehicle cabin to display an inducement image requesting that an occupant grip a steering wheel in a case in which it is necessary for the occupant to grip the steering wheel, and cause the display unit to display the inducement image more prominently in a case of requesting that the occupant grip the steering wheel before the vehicle switches from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously, than in a case of requesting that the occupant continue to grip the steering wheel as the vehicle is continuing to drive autonomously.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to perform an intermittent stop of an engine in accordance with a traveling state of a vehicle, cause the engine to restart by self-sustaining resumption when restart of the engine is requested in a state in which the engine is rotating during the intermittent stop, and perform a retarded injection control that retards, in a combustion cycle of the engine, a starting time of a first fuel injection at the time of the restart of the engine by the self-sustaining resumption as compared to a starting time of a second fuel injection.

Abstract: A control device for a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and an electric rotary machine connected to the internal combustion engine in a power-transmittable manner is able to perform torque-down through ignition delay control for delaying an ignition timing of the internal combustion engine and regeneration control for performing regeneration using the electric rotary machine when there is a torque-down request based on a vehicle state. The control device is configured to perform torque-down corresponding to a deficiency by delaying the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine when an actual torque of the electric rotary machine through the regeneration control is deficient for the torque-down request.

Abstract: A controller includes a memory and a processor. The memory stores drop-off data regarding a first user who gets off a ride-sharing vehicle and pick-up data regarding a second user who gets on the ride-sharing vehicle. The processor is configured to execute vehicle control including at least one of drop-off of the first user and pick-up of the second user based on at least one of the drop-off data and the pick-up data. The vehicle control includes, executing at least one of first zone setting processing that is processing of setting a first zone where the drop-off is executed and second zone setting processing that is processing of setting a second zone where the pick-up is executed, and executing first zone resetting processing of resetting the first zone in a space not overlapping the second zone.

Abstract: A roll vibration damping control system includes an electronic control unit configured to: compute a sum of a product of a roll moment of inertia and a roll angular acceleration of a vehicle body, a product of a roll damping coefficient and a first-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, and a product of an equivalent roll stiffness of the vehicle and a second-order integral of the roll angular acceleration, as a controlled roll moment to be applied to the vehicle body; compute a roll moment around a center of gravity of a sprung mass as a correction roll moment, the roll moment being generated by lateral force on wheels due to roll motion; and compute a target roll moment based on a value obtained by correcting the controlled roll moment with the correction roll moment.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to control an actuator and generate state information representing a state of the actuator, a request arbitration unit configured to arbitrate requests from a plurality of application execution units, and a request generation unit configured to generate a drive request signal to the controller. The controller includes a detection unit configured to detect whether or not the request arbitration unit is abnormal, a first transmission unit configured to transmit the state information to the request arbitration unit, and a second transmission unit configured to, when the detection unit detects that the request arbitration unit is abnormal, transmit the state information to the application execution units such that the state information does not pass through the request arbitration unit.

Abstract: A center is configured to communicate with an OTA master configured to control software update of an electronic control unit installed in a vehicle. The center includes one or more processors configured to: receive a notification indicating progress of software update processing of the electronic control unit from the OTA master; manage an update status indicating an processing state of the software update processing in the vehicle based on the notification received by the one or more processors; and when the one or more processors receive a third notification following a first notification, set the update status based on the third notification, the third notification being different from a second notification scheduled to be received following the first notification.

Abstract: An updating system includes a plurality of electronic control units and an updating management device. The updating management device is configured to request that the electronic control units respectively update programs and store update results of the programs transmitted from the electronic control units. The electronic control unit has a first storage region and a second storage region, and is configured to store an updated program in the second storage region and notify the updating management device of the update results according to a request from the updating management device, and is configured to start a predetermined control using the updated program stored in the second storage region when the update results stored in the updating management device indicate that the updating of the programs in the electronic control units is completed.