Vehicle

Abstract

A vehicle, comprising a monitoring unit configured to monitor a surrounding environment of a vehicle body, a plurality of impact absorption units, an arithmetic unit configured to identify at least two characteristic parts of an object, in a case where the object is likely to come into contact with the vehicle body, based on a monitoring result of the monitoring unit, and configured to identify contact positions of the vehicle body to be respectively contacted with the at least two characteristic parts that have been identified, and an operation control unit configured to selectively operate the plurality of impact absorption units, based on the contact positions that have been identified.

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