Operation selection device deciding on vehicle operation using weighting

An operation selection method performed by a processor, the method comprising:

• performing communication between a self-driving device that is provided at a vehicle which performs self-driving, and a plurality of operating devices that enable the vehicle to be driven remotely via a remote-control operation performed by a remote-control driver, and that are individually provided for each of a plurality of remote-control drivers;
• acquiring information relating to remote-control operations performed by each remote-control driver using each of the plurality of operating devices for an event receiving the remote-control operation in the vehicle currently being driven remotely;
• acquiring, from the self-driving device, information relating to an autonomous operation that is required to perform the self-driving and that was created for the event;
• determining whether the self-driving that is necessary to perform the autonomous operation would be difficult;
• in a case that the self-driving is determined not to be difficult, cause the self-driving device to perform driving of the vehicle;
• and
• in a case that the self-driving is determined to be difficult:
• allocating a score, to each remote-control driver that could perform one of the plurality of remote-control operations instead of the autonomous operation;
• deciding, using a predetermined weighting, whether to choose the one of the plurality of remote-control operations or instead to proceed with the autonomous operation;
• selecting one device among the plurality of operating devices or the self-driving device based upon the deciding;
• and
• causing the selected device to perform driving of the vehicle by communicating with the selected device.

A non-transitory storage medium on which is stored a program that is executable by a processor to perform operation selection processing in which:

• communication is performed between a self-driving device that is provided at a vehicle which performs self-driving, and a plurality of operating devices that enable the vehicle to be driven remotely via a remote-control operation performed by a remote-control driver, and that are individually provided for each of a plurality of remote-control drivers;
• information relating to remote-control operations performed by each remote-control driver is acquired using each of the plurality of operating devices for an event receiving the remote-control operation in the vehicle currently being driven remotely;
• information relating to an autonomous operation that is required to perform the self-driving and that was created for the event is acquired from the self-driving device;
• whether the self-driving that is necessary to perform the autonomous operation would be difficult is determined;
• in a case that the self-driving is determined not to be difficult, the self-driving device is caused to perform driving of the vehicle;
• and
• in a case that the self-driving is determined to be difficult:
• a score is allocated to each remote-control driver that could perform one of the plurality of remote-control operation instead of the autonomous operation;
• whether to choose the one of the plurality of remote-control operations or instead to proceed with the autonomous operation is decided on using a predetermined weighting;
• one device among the plurality of operating devices or the self-driving device is selected based upon the deciding;
• and
• the selected device is caused to perform driving of the vehicle by communicating with the selected device.