Abstract: An ECU of a vehicle control apparatus determines that an erroneous operation to an accelerator pedal has been performed, when both a prerequisite condition and an additional condition are satisfied. The prerequisite condition: an operation amount of the accelerator pedal becomes greater than a high threshold after an increasing rate of the accelerator pedal operation amount becomes great at a driving range. The additional condition is satisfied when at least one of three conditions (1)-(3) is satisfied. The condition (1): a shift position is at a driving range and a first operation to the accelerator pedal is not performed in a first period before the prerequisite condition becomes satisfied. The condition (2): a magnitude of a steering angle of when prerequisite condition becomes satisfied is great. The condition (3): a second operation to the accelerator pedal is performed at a non-driving range before the prerequisite condition becomes satisfied.

Abstract: A composite material having a black pigment and a textile material. The composite material has a reflectivity toward near infrared electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from 800 nm to 2500 nm of greater than or equal to 12%, and the composite material has a reflectivity toward visible light having a wavelength from 350 nm to 750 nm of less than or equal to 10%.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request for charge from a vehicle from a software application on the vehicle, where the request comprises an identifier of a destination of the vehicle and a state of charge (SOC) of the vehicle, determining a charging time for the vehicle at a charging station based on the SOC, dynamically selecting content from among a database of content based on the destination and the charging time, detecting the vehicle performing a charging operation at the charging station, and delivering the dynamically selected content to a graphical user interface (GUI) of the software application while the vehicle is performing the charging operation.

Abstract: A moving object operation management device is configured to set an exclusive section when a work of a certain moving object inhibits movement of a passage of another moving object, and to selectively issue a first operation instruction for moving one of the two moving objects to the next destination on a path bypassing the exclusive section for the other when the exclusive section for one of the two moving objects and the exclusive section for the other object are adjacent to each other and the movement on the shortest path to the next destination is inhibited by the other exclusive section, and a second operation instruction for moving one of the two moving objects to the next destination on the shortest path after the exclusive section for the other object is released, by comparing the arrival time to the one next destination when the instruction is followed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an information processing device. A control unit configured to set a policy for providing information regarding a plurality of users riding in the same vehicle in accordance with information transmitted from terminals of the plurality of users. It is checked whether or not a plurality of users agrees to provide information.

Abstract: In a suspension control system, an actuator adjusts a suspension stroke. An acquisition unit acquires, from a road surface data map in which a road surface displacement-associated value associated with vertical displacement of a road surface is associated with a position, a road surface displacement-associated value at a predicted passing position of a control target wheel a predetermined time after a present time. A calculation unit calculates a target control force based on the acquired road surface displacement-associated value. A control unit controls the actuator such that a control force generated by the actuator coincides with the target control force when the control target wheel passes the predicted passing position. The calculation unit calculates the target control force such that an amount of change in the target control force per unit time becomes smaller when a blinker of a vehicle starts operating than when the blinker is not operating.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of establishing global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of a virtual geographic boundary around a charging station through a software application, receiving a message from a vehicle which comprises a state of charge (SOC) of the vehicle and an identifier of the vehicle, verifying the vehicle based on the message, detecting that the vehicle has entered the virtual geographic boundary around the charging station based on GPS coordinates of the vehicle, and delivering content to a graphical user interface (GUI) of the software application in response to detection that the vehicle has entered the virtual geographic boundary.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of assigning a time slot to a vehicle for a charging operation at a charging station, where the time slot includes a starting point in time and an end point in time, transmitting a notification to the vehicle which includes an identifier of the charging station and the starting point in time, iteratively capturing sensor data at the charging station, determining whether the charging operation started on time based on the starting point in time and the sensor data, and in response to a determination that the charging operation started on time, delivering content to the vehicle while the charging operation is being performed.

Abstract: A server includes a communication unit (acquisition unit) that acquires temperature information about a battery of an electrified vehicle, and a processor. The processor predicts the temperature transition of the battery in a meeting period during which an electric power supply-demand adjustment request from an electric power grid (electric power network) can be met, based on at least the temperature information. The processor estimates an hour zone in the meeting period during which the temperature of the battery is in the range of a non-restrictive temperature zone (a temperature zone in which transmitted electric power is restricted), based on the temperature transition. The processor sets an hour zone during which the electrified vehicle executes electric power transmission in response to the electric power supply-demand adjustment request, based on the estimated hour zone.

Abstract: Each base station executes: a first process of acquiring a first signal from a first terminal from among signals simultaneously received from N terminals, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal; a second process of generating a second signal, which is a replica of a signal arriving from the first terminal based on the first data; a third process of acquiring signals by excluding the second signal from the signals simultaneously received from the N terminals; and sequentially repeating the first to third processes for the extracted signals, with one of N?1 terminals as a new first terminal. The base station shares the first data with other base stations through a backbone line, and, if the N terminals is larger than the M receive antennas in number, executes the second and third processes, using the first data received from another base station.

Abstract: In the information processing device, the control unit acquires, from the vehicle, vehicle data including traveling data of the vehicle and driver information of the vehicle. The control unit verifies the identity of the driver of the vehicle with a predetermined user associated with the vehicle based on the driver information included in the vehicle data. The control unit determines the validity of the traveling data included in the vehicle data according to the verification result of the identity between the predetermined user and the driver of the vehicle.

Abstract: One or more actuators can be used to provide a substantially continuous level of lumbar support to a seat occupant. An actuator can be operatively positioned relative to a lumbar region of a seat. The actuator can be caused to morph into an activated configuration to support a lumbar region of a seat occupant. The activated configuration of the actuator can be maintained to provide a substantially continuous level of lumbar support.

Abstract: A system is mounted on a vehicle and includes a sensor configured to perform a detection process that detects a fingerprint of a finger touching the sensor in order to perform a fingerprint authentication process, and a controller. The controller is configured to: (i) control a power supply of the vehicle to be ON when a predetermined authentication process through a predetermined communication with another device other than the sensor is successful, the predetermined authentication process being different from the fingerprint authentication process, and (ii) suppress the detection process that detects the fingerprint in response to the power supply of the vehicle being ON and the predetermined authentication process being successful.

Abstract: A deceleration assistance apparatus executes deceleration control that decelerates a vehicle when a vehicle speed of the vehicle is greater than a target vehicle speed set as a target value of a vehicle speed of the vehicle when the vehicle travels on a curved road. The deceleration assistance apparatus is configured to cause the target vehicle speed to be greater by a predetermined value or is configured to not execute the deceleration control even when the vehicle speed of the vehicle is greater than the target vehicle speed when a predetermined condition in which a decrease of a deceleration speed of the vehicle is detected when the vehicle travels on the curved road is met.

Abstract: To enable appropriate execution of a deceleration control, provided is a control device comprising a setting unit configured to sets a first vehicle ahead of an own vehicle in an adjacent, as a target that has a sign of lane change, when a state of the first vehicle and a second vehicle ahead of the first vehicle satisfy a predetermined condition, a control unit configured to executes a deceleration control, when the setting unit set the first vehicle as the target, and an acquisition unit configured to acquires an information whether or not the first vehicle starts lane change. The control unit is configured to terminates the deceleration control when the acquisition unit acquires information that the first vehicle does not start lane change, while continues the deceleration control when the acquisition unit does not acquires information that the first vehicle does not start lane change.

Abstract: A drive unit mounted on a vehicle includes: a motor; a motor-side shaft having a first spline on an outer peripheral surface thereof and rotated by torque from the motor; a gear-side shaft having a second spline on the outer peripheral surface thereof and disposed coaxially with the motor-side shaft; and a coupling sleeve disposed from the motor-side shaft to the gear-side shaft and having a third spline on the inner peripheral surface thereof that engages with the first spline and the second spline. The coupling sleeve is configured to be movable along the axial direction, and at least one of a first engagement length in which the third spline engages the first spline and a second engagement length in which the third spline engages the second spline varies according to an axial position of the coupling sleeve.

Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of querying a computer of a vehicle via a charging station, wherein the querying comprises receiving attributes of a rechargeable battery of the vehicle from the computer, determining a total charge time for the rechargeable battery based on the attributes of the rechargeable battery and attributes of the charging station, selecting media content from among a plurality of media content based on the total charge time determined for the rechargeable battery, and outputting the media content via the charging station.

Abstract: Embodiments of methods and systems include determining a driving maneuver to be performed by an ego vehicle based on a road geometry and a lane geometry, the ego vehicle surrounded by one or more surrounding vehicles, retrieving a trajectory model corresponding to the driving maneuver, encoding kinematic data of the surrounding vehicles relative to the ego vehicle to generate spatial relationships between the surrounding vehicles and the ego vehicle, predicting future trajectories of the surrounding vehicles based on the spatial relationships, the kinematic data, the road geometry, and the lane geometry, generating a collision coefficient based on the future trajectories and the driving maneuver, and when the collision coefficient is greater than a predetermined threshold value, determining an escape route for the ego vehicle, and causing the ego vehicle to autonomously operate based on the escape route.

Abstract: When the driving mode is the automatic driving mode, the vehicle control device executes the first hard protection control according to the component-related parameter representing the state or the operating environment of the in-vehicle component, and when the driving mode is the manual driving mode, the vehicle control device executes the second hard protection control having a higher protection performance of the in-vehicle component than the first hard protection control according to the component-related parameter.

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing pressurized air from a vehicle. The apparatus includes an engine block including a plurality of cylinders, a plurality of pistons each disposed within a respective one of the plurality of cylinders, a crankshaft rotatably mounted on the engine block, a plurality of connecting rods each having a first end and a second end, the first end rotatably connected to the crankshaft and the second end coupled to a respective one of the plurality of pistons, a fuel and air mixture intake line in communication with at least one cylinder of the plurality of cylinders, an air intake line in communication with the at least one cylinder, an exhaust line in communication with the at least one cylinder, a switch, and a switch controller. The switch controller may cause the switch to switch between a fuel and air mixture configuration and an air-only configuration.