Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to determine whether or not a position of a key device is located within a predetermined area, and in a case where the position of the key device is located within the predetermined area, stop a smart key function of a vehicle or transmit a first signal requesting setting of a remote immobilizer function of the vehicle.

Abstract: A stopping position control device according to an embodiment includes a sitting position specifying unit configured to specify a sitting position of a user who gets off a vehicle next, the vehicle being subjected to automatic driving control, and a stopping position determination unit configured to determine a stopping position of the vehicle, at which the user gets off the vehicle, corresponding to the sitting position of the user.

Abstract: A method executed by a control device includes: acquiring odor information indicating an odor intensity of each of a plurality of garbage collection sites, the odor intensity being detected by an odor sensor; determining an order in which garbage is collected from each of the garbage collection sites based on the odor information; and causing a garbage collection device to sequentially collect the garbage from each of the garbage collection sites according to the order.

Abstract: A management server performs a process including: when an electric vehicle is returned, obtaining a usage history of the vehicle; calculating a ratio of a non-traveling period of time of the vehicle; setting a discount rate based on the ratio of the non-traveling period of time; setting a discount rate based on how many times the vehicle is rapidly accelerated; setting a discount rate based on how many times the vehicle is rapidly decelerated; setting a discount rate based on environmental temperature; setting a discount rate based on a parking environment; setting a discount rate based on an SOC history; and setting a rental fee.

Abstract: A vehicle dispatch system includes an information processing device provided in a public transport, a server configured to manage a service for dispatching a vehicle, and driver terminals configured to be browsed and operated by drivers of a plurality of registered vehicles. The server is configured to receive a second request including the number of transportation requesters of a plurality of sections respectively connecting second positions as departure places and destinations from the information processing device. The server is configured to decide candidates of a plurality of vehicles to be dispatched to any of the second positions based on the number of transportation requesters of each section and transmits second vehicle dispatch request information including positional information of any of the second positions and the number of boarding requesters and not including identification information of a specific user to the vehicles.

Abstract: The control device includes a control unit that is configured to control an unmanned aerial vehicle that collects a collection object. The control unit acquires information that indicates an odor intensity of the collection object to be collected, and determines a flight route of the unmanned aerial vehicle after the unmanned aerial vehicle picks up the collection object located at a collection point, based on the information that indicates the odor intensity of the collection object.

Abstract: A server device transmits an instruction for causing a plurality of flying bodies to perform flight operation to the flying bodies. The flight operation includes a step in which a first flying body urges a penetrating tool toward an object placed in a predetermined space and flies out of the predetermined space while holding a first part and a second part of a string member attached to the penetrating tool, the first part having penetrated the object and the second part not having penetrated the object, a step in which a second flying body receives either the first or second part from the first flying body, and a step in which the first and second flying bodies transport the object while towing the object with the string member as the first and second flying bodies fly while respectively holding one or the other of the first and second parts.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller configured to control display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The controller outputs information to be displayed on a display device such that a driver of the vehicle visually recognizes advance notification information that makes advance notification of the display of the crosswalk.

Abstract: A server apparatus includes a communication unit, and a control unit configured to send an instruction for causing flight vehicles to perform a flight operation, to the flight vehicles. The flight operation includes energizing, by a first flight vehicle, a penetration tool toward a target object in a space, holding a first part, penetrated through the target object, and a second part, not penetrated through the target object, of a cord-shaped member attached to the penetration tool, and flying to outside the space, waiting, by a second flight vehicle, outside the space and receiving any one of the first and second parts from the first flight vehicle, and towing, by the first and second flight vehicles, the target object with the cord-shaped member and transporting the target object to outside the space by flying while respectively holding any one and the other of the first and second parts.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for providing aid to people in need of assistance outdoors. The information processing apparatus includes a controller. When a request for a search for a route is received, the controller generates, using a link and a node at which travel by a wheelchair is possible, a section to be included in the route between two locations and that is to be traveled by the wheelchair.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller performs control to store service specifications received from a first terminal apparatus in association with a child-care facility corresponding to the first terminal apparatus. The controller performs control to store a child-care request received from a second terminal apparatus. The controller generates a pick-up route. The pick-up route is for navigating a vehicle to travel via a pick-up location of the child-care request within a pick-up time slot and reach a facility location at or after the child-care start time of the child-care facility. The controller sends, to a third terminal apparatus installed in a vehicle, the pick-up route.

Abstract: An autonomous vehicle allows passengers to transfer from a passenger vehicle, which is a relatively large vehicle, to the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is provided with an autonomous travel control unit (steering control unit) configured to, when the passenger vehicle is stopped, cause the autonomous vehicle to pull up alongside the passenger vehicle such that an entrance (second entrance) of the autonomous vehicle is placed next to an entrance (first entrance) of the passenger vehicle.

Abstract: An automated driving vehicle includes an analysis unit, an autonomous travel control unit, and a passenger ascertaining unit configured to transmit a notification to an interested person's contact-number device set in a reservation for vehicle allocation in at least one of (1) a case in which a passenger set in the reservation for vehicle allocation has boarded at a boarding point set in the reservation for vehicle allocation, (2) a case in which the passenger has not been recognized by the analysis unit within a predetermined waiting time from a target boarding point arrival time set in the reservation for vehicle allocation, and (3) a case in which the passenger has alighted at a destination set in the reservation for vehicle allocation.

Abstract: A wind data estimating apparatus includes one or more processors configured to collect vehicle information including a first acceleration, an amount of driving operation performed by a driver of a vehicle, and position information, which are obtained by sensors installed in the vehicle; classify the collected vehicle information by an area of a plurality of areas according to the position information; and estimate a wind velocity and a wind direction for the area and for a time range when the vehicle information is obtained, on the basis of an acceleration obtained from subtracting a second acceleration caused by the amount of driving operation from the first acceleration included in the vehicle information classified by the area.

Abstract: A mobile terminal includes an input unit that is capable of receiving input of a dispatch request and a destination and a position determiner that is capable of obtaining a terminal position which is its own current position. In accordance with the dispatch request, an autonomous vehicle is designated as a vehicle that is to be dispatched. The autonomous vehicle includes an autonomous driving controller that performs driving control so as to track the mobile terminal based on the terminal position while on its way to pick up the user.

Abstract: When a rental user schedule management unit (general user schedule management unit) receives, from a general user (rental user) different from the priority user that is a lease contractor, a general usage request for a predetermined autonomous vehicle in which a time zone excluding a priority usage time zone is specified, the rental user schedule management unit set the time zone specified by the general usage request as a general usage time zone.

Abstract: A mass transportation vehicle includes a stop selector and a dispatcher. The stop selector is configured to enable a passenger on the mass transportation vehicle to select a destination stop at which the passenger plans to get off. The dispatcher is configured to book dispatch of an autonomous vehicle to which the passenger transfers after getting off the mass transportation vehicle at the destination stop. The dispatcher sends information about the destination stop to a dispatch management device of the autonomous vehicle as information about a waiting point of the autonomous vehicle.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a control unit that controls display of a crosswalk on a road on which a vehicle travels. The control unit outputs information for displaying the crosswalk in a range that is determined based on a state of a pedestrian crossing the road.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a signal sent from a wireless communication unit included in an autonomous vehicle, a failure determination unit configured to determine a failed vehicle in which an external monitoring camera has failed based on the signal from the wireless communication unit, a detection unit configured to detect a specific vehicle that is planned to travel on a route at least a section of which overlaps with a travel planned route of the failed vehicle beginning at a failure point of the failed vehicle that includes the exterior monitoring camera determined to be failed, and a sending unit configured to send travel control information to the failed vehicle to instruct the failed vehicle to travel in front of or behind the specific vehicle.

Abstract: A ride-sharing mediating system includes a driver terminal, a user terminal, and a server. The driver terminal receives input of planned travel information and transmits it to the server. The user terminal receives input of ride-sharing request information and transmits it to the server. The server includes a reception portion, a server controlling portion, a transmission portion, and a storage portion. The server controlling portion searches pieces of planned travel information stored in the storage portion based on the ride-sharing request information and determines a proposal route including one or more routes in which a user shares a ride in a registered vehicle from a departure point to a destination. The server controlling portion determines the proposal route by comparing, with each other, a plurality of routes including a route in which the user changes at least two registered vehicles.