US 11,912,276 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
Hikaru Gotoh, Nagoya (JP); Shin Sakurada, Toyota (JP); Naoki Uenoyama, Nagoya (JP); Takumi Fukunaga, Nisshin (JP); Josuke Yamane, Nisshin (JP); Rio Minagawa, Nagoya (JP); and Soutaro Kaneko, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jan. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/155,374.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-025490 (JP), filed on Feb. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0253099 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 30/16 (2020.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 40/105 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/162 (2013.01) [B60W 30/146 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 40/105 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4046 (2020.02); B60W 2554/804 (2020.02)] 17 Claims
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1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a controller configured to execute:
periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and
performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that a polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold, wherein
the predetermined processing includes causing at least one of the two vehicles to switch from manual driving to autonomous driving in the case where the number of times that the polarity of the relative speed is inverted in the first period exceeds the first threshold,
the controller is configured to determine the first threshold on a basis of positional relationship between the two vehicles, and
the controller is configured to set the first threshold smaller in a case where the two vehicles are traveling side by side than in a case where the two vehicles are traveling in single file.