Jaguar Land Rover Limited

Helio Cardoso

Daniel Woolliscroft

David Pettinger

Edward Pither

Fivos Panagiotopoulos

Anand Govindankutty

Nilesh Singh

A driver assistance system for a vehicle, includes one or more controllers and is configured to: receive location information indicative of a location of the vehicle; determine, based on image data received from one or more imaging devices associated with the vehicle, one or more visible characteristics in an environment of the vehicle; determine, based at least in part on the location information and the visible characteristics, an availability of a remotely accessible feature of the vehicle; and output a signal indicative of the availability of the remotely accessible feature.

Apparatus and method for use with a vehicle

Embodiments of the present invention provide a controller (), comprising input means () for receiving an environment signal indicative of a feature in a vicinity of a vehicle, output means () for outputting a manoeuvre signal to cause a vehicle to perform a defined manoeuvre, and control means () arranged to provide at least one mode for performing at least a portion of the defined manoeuvre, the mode being selectable from a plurality of modes including at least one mode corresponding to an occupant-in-vehicle mode and at least one mode corresponding to an occupant-out-of-vehicle mode, the mode being selectable in dependence upon the environment signal being indicative of a vehicle envelope suitable for the mode.

Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle movement

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