Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Chase Violetta

Prashant Tiwari

Kyungtae Han

John K Lenneman

Ziran Wang

Miles J Johnson

Toshinori Esaka

Based on a model and an identity of an operator of a vehicle, a setting for a cruise control to maintain a distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle can be determined. The model can be based on historical distances maintained by the operator. The model can also be based on information about an environment in which the vehicle is operating or information about a state of the operator. The identity can be received from an interface configured to receive information associated with the identity, a cloud computing platform, or a biometric system configured to determine the identity. The cruise control can be caused to operate according to the setting. A rate of energy consumption by the vehicle when the vehicle is controlled by the cruise control can be less than the rate of energy consumption when the vehicle lacks being controlled by the cruise control.

Determining a setting for a cruise control

Systems and methods for cleaning vehicle sensors are disclosed that optimize sensor cleaning fluid usage. An exemplary vehicle sensor cleaning system includes a sensor cleaning fluid delivery system that delivers sensor cleaning fluid to a sensor of a vehicle and a sensor cleaning control system in communication with the sensor cleaning fluid delivery system. The sensor cleaning control system determines a target cleanliness level for the sensor based on sensor cleaning data associated with the sensor. The target cleanliness level is less than a maximum cleanliness level indicating indicates a contaminate-free sensor. The sensor cleaning control system further monitors a cleanliness level of the sensor and initiates a sensor cleaning operation when the cleanliness level of the sensor is less than an operational cleanliness threshold, such that the sensor cleaning fluid delivery system delivers sensor cleaning fluid to the sensor to clean the sensor to the target cleanliness level.

Sensor cleaning system and sensor cleaning method for vehicle

System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to selecting a route for a vehicle to travel. In one embodiment, the routing system determines a travel route for a vehicle by obtaining usage data for one or more segments of travel, the usage data indicating at least an amount of sensor cleaning fluid used during travel of the vehicle along the one or more segments. The routing system determines a plurality of routes to a destination, and selects a route from among the plurality of routes, the route being selected based at least in part on the usage data.

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