| CPC B60W 60/0051 (2020.02) [B60W 60/0016 (2020.02); G05D 1/0061 (2013.01); G05D 1/0214 (2013.01); B60W 2540/229 (2020.02)] | 8 Claims |
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1. A vehicle device comprising:
a physical condition monitoring unit configured to monitor a physical condition of a driver in a driving state of a vehicle;
an awakening operation execution unit configured to execute an awakening operation in response to the physical condition of the driver being determined to be abnormal by the physical condition monitoring unit;
an abnormality resolution determination unit configured to determine whether the abnormal physical condition of the driver is resolved by the awakening operation executed by the awakening operation execution unit;
a travelling control unit configured to control the vehicle to travel in a manual travelling mode or in an autonomous travelling mode;
an emergency autonomous travelling execution unit configured to execute an emergency autonomous travelling of the vehicle by instructing the travelling control unit to control the vehicle travel in the autonomous travelling mode in response to the abnormality resolution determination unit determining that the abnormal physical condition of the driver is not resolved;
an emergency autonomous travelling notification unit configured to notify a surrounding of the vehicle that the vehicle is in a state of the emergency autonomous travelling while the emergency autonomous travelling execution unit executes the emergency autonomous travelling of the vehicle;
a first rescue request execution unit configured to execute a first rescue request which indicates the driver is having an ongoing emergency situation in travelling state toward the surrounding of the vehicle while the emergency autonomous travelling execution unit executes the emergency autonomous travelling of the vehicle;
a facility search unit configured to search for a facility capable of treating the abnormal physical condition of the driver in response to the abnormality resolution determination unit determining that the abnormal physical condition of the driver is not resolved; and
a second rescue request execution unit configured to execute a second rescue request which indicates the driver is having an ongoing emergency situation after arrival toward the surrounding of the vehicle in response to the vehicle arriving at another facility and being stopped, the second rescue request after arrival being different from the first rescue request in travelling state,
wherein
the emergency autonomous travelling execution unit sets the facility specified by the facility search unit as a destination in response to the facility search unit specifying the facility capable of treating the abnormal physical condition of the driver, and executes the emergency autonomous travelling of the vehicle to the destination,
the emergency autonomous travelling execution unit sets the another facility as a destination in response to the facility search unit failing to specify the facility capable of treating the abnormal physical condition of the driver, and executes the emergency autonomous travelling of the vehicle to the destination,
the emergency autonomous travelling notification unit displays, toward an outer surrounding of the vehicle, a message, including a description of the emergency in the form of a text and/or an image, indicating that the vehicle is in an emergency autonomous travelling state and the driver needs rescue,
in response to determining that the vehicle has arrived at the destination, the emergency autonomous travelling execution unit ends the emergency autonomous travelling and the first rescue request execution unit ends the first rescue request in travelling state, and then the second rescue request execution unit determines whether to start and execute the second rescue request after arrival, and
in response to determining that the second rescue request after arrival is necessary to be started and executed, the second rescue request execution unit starts and executes the second rescue request after arrival.
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