Abstract: A deviant position detector that determines whether or not a vehicle deviated from a set route, detects route deviation information such as a route deviated position when a vehicle deviated, and stores it as past route deviation information in a route deviant position memory. A route searching device searches a route to a destination based on information obtained by a position detector and a map information acquiring device, and further searches past route deviation information obtained from the route deviant position memory. A route guidance changing device determines whichever route guidance method is the best based on information obtained by the route searching device and from the route deviant position memory, and instructs a route guidance outputting device to output the best route guidance method.
Abstract: There is disclosed a malfunction diagnostic apparatus for a vehicle control system wherein a period of time after the last detection of a malfunction state is set by a timer, to inhibit the display of stored information when the period of time has exceeded over a specific period of time, and to release the inhibited display in accordance with an inhibition release signal.
Abstract: When vibrations having a period at which pitching tends to occur in a vehicle body is detected, if its amplitude falls out of the range between "H" and "L", a control unit increases the damping force of each suspension unit by using an actuator. In addition, if the amplitude falls out of the range between "HH" and "LL", the control unit supplies a predetermined amount of air to each air spring chamber in response to an upward displacement of vehicle height, and exhausts a predetermined amount of air from each air spring chamber in response to a downward displacement of vehicle height.