Vehicle occupant information acquisition device and vehicle control system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshinori Yamada
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Abstract
A vehicle occupant information acquisition device includes a microcomputer, an acquisition unit and an alert unit. The microcomputer controls the vehicle to switch between an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode. The acquisition unit acquires, from vehicle occupants riding in the vehicle, information relating to driving suitability of the vehicle occupants. In a case in which the microcomputer is switching the vehicle from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode, the microcomputer causes the alert unit to alert one of the vehicle occupants who is determined to be suitable to drive the vehicle based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit that he/she has been selected as the driver of the vehicle.
Claims13
A vehicle occupant information acquisition device comprising:
- a microcomputer configured to control a vehicle to switch between an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode of the vehicle;
- acquisition means for acquiring, from two or more vehicle occupants riding in the vehicle, a plurality of information relating to driving suitability of each of the vehicle occupants, the plurality of information being supplied to the microcomputer;
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- an indicator coupled to and controlled by the microcomputer, wherein in a case in which the microcomputer is switching the vehicle from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode, the microcomputer causes the indicator to alert one of the vehicle occupants who is determined to be suitable to drive the vehicle based on the plurality of information acquired by the acquisition means that the one of the vehicle occupants has been selected as the driver of the vehicle in the manual driving mode,
- wherein the microcomputer is configured to select, and cause the indicator to alert, the one of the vehicle occupants who is suitable to drive by calculating an evaluation value for each of the vehicle occupants by adding respective weightings based on the plurality of information acquired by the acquisition means and by evaluating each of the vehicle occupants based on the calculated evaluation value for each of the vehicle occupants.
A vehicle occupant information acquisition device comprising:
- a microcomputer configured to control a vehicle to switch between an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode of the vehicle, the microcomputer configured to:
- acquire, from two or more vehicle occupants riding in the vehicle, a plurality of information relating to driving suitability of each of the vehicle occupants, and
- in a case in which the microcomputer is switching the vehicle from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode:
- calculate an evaluation value for each of the vehicle occupants by adding respective weightings based on the acquired plurality of information,
- evaluate each of the vehicle occupants based on the calculated evaluation value for each of the vehicle occupants, and
- select and alert one of the vehicle occupants who is determined to be suitable to drive the vehicle based on the evaluation.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a control program causing a computer, configured to control a vehicle to switch between an autonomous driving mode and a manual driving mode of the vehicle, to execute a process for vehicle occupant information acquisition, the process comprising:
- acquiring, from two or more vehicle occupants riding in the vehicle, a plurality of information relating to driving suitability of each of the vehicle occupants, and
- in a case in which the computer is switching the vehicle from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode:
- calculating an evaluation value for each of the vehicle occupants by adding respective weightings based on the acquired plurality of information,
- evaluating each of the vehicle occupants based on the calculated evaluation value for each of the vehicle occupants, and
- selecting and alerting one of the vehicle occupants who is determined to be suitable to drive the vehicle based on the evaluating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.