Abstract: A taxi system includes: a plurality of unmanned taxi vehicles; a medium reader that is mounted on the unmanned taxi vehicle, and outputs a result obtained by reading a certificate medium presented by the occupant, as read data; and a system controller that acquires, by analyzing the read data, ticket information including at least one of a destination and payment information, and executes, based on the acquired ticket information, at least one of setting of the destination of the unmanned taxi vehicle and execution of a payment, in which the certificate medium is a medium issued to the occupant in order to authenticate the occupant in a situation other than taxi use.

Abstract: A taxicab system includes a plurality of taxicab vehicles which are all autonomous vehicles, and a management device. Each taxicab vehicle can form a vehicle group with other taxicab vehicles according to an instruction from a customer or the management device. The vehicle group includes one representative vehicle and at least one subordinate vehicle. The representative vehicle and the subordinate vehicle execute at least one of a collective billing process for charging a representative customer a fare for each of the plurality of vehicles, and a collective setting process for setting a place designated by the representative customer as a destination of each of the vehicles.

Abstract: A taxi system includes: a plurality of taxi vehicles that each transport a user to a destination by automatic driving; and a management center, in which the management center, when a prescribed protection condition is satisfied, instructs one or more unmanned taxi vehicles to execute the protection traveling that is traveling while protecting a manned taxi group including one or more manned taxi vehicles, and the unmanned taxi vehicle, when having received an execution instruction of the protection traveling, protects the manned taxi group by traveling adjacently to the manned taxi group in a front-rear direction.

Abstract: A taxi vehicle that autonomously transports a user to a destination with no driver in the vehicle includes a cleaning device and a notification device. The cleaning device is configured to perform cleaning processing for removing at least one of harmful materials and odors from a vehicle cabin after the user has finished using the taxi vehicle. The harmful materials are those harmful to a human body. The notification device is configured to notify a person of the cleaning degree of the vehicle cabin. The person is a person outside the vehicle who wishes to use the vehicle.

Abstract: A brushless DC linear motor includes a coil unit in which electric flow terminals of each of three flat coils are connected with a star connection or with a delta connection; and the three flat coils have the same shape whose empty core section and winding section have their dimension of breadth determined on 1/2 of a magnetic pole-pitch of a magnetic body and are arranged in a shifted position of the magnetic pole-pitch by n/3 (n is a natural number excluding multiples of 3) on the coil unit. The motor also includes a sensor unit in which three magnetic detection sensors corresponding to the respective flat coils are arranged at intervals of 1/3+2m (m=0, 1, 2, 3, . . . ) of the magnetic pole-pitch and any of these magnetic detection sensors and its corresponding flat coils are arranged at the determined distance in accordance with the magnetic pole-pitch.