Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

John H Marcoux

Miles J Johnson

Rini Sherony

Joshua E Domeyer

Tina Brunetti Sayer

Yu Hiei

Danil V Prokhorov

Michael James Delp

An apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to determine an actual driving performance of a driver in a manual driving mode and a projected driving performance if the vehicle had been operated in an autonomous driving mode, compare the driving performance in the manual driving mode and the autonomous driving mode, and transmit a feedback to the driver based on the comparison. The processing circuitry can be further configured to determine a driver state of the driver in the manual driving mode, determine environmental driving condition of the vehicle, and establish a baseline behavior of the driver as a function of the driver state and the environmental driving condition.

Driver and vehicle monitoring feedback system for an autonomous vehicle

A feedback server includes a processing circuitry configured to determine an actual driving performance of a driver in a manual driving mode and a projected driving performance if the vehicle had been operated in an autonomous driving mode, compare the driving performance in the manual driving mode and the autonomous driving mode, and transmit a feedback to the driver based on the comparison. The processing circuitry can be further configured to determine a driver state of the driver in the manual driving mode, determine environmental driving condition of the vehicle, and establish a baseline behavior of the driver as a function of the driver state and the environmental driving condition.

Described herein is an autonomous vehicle comprising a sensor and a driver notification module in communication with the sensor. The driver notification module may be configured to receive first information related to an upcoming event; determine an action for an autonomous vehicle based, at least in part, on the first information; determine one or more characteristics of the action based, at least in part on the first information and a current status of the autonomous vehicle; determine a notification based, at least in part, on the action and the one or more characteristics; and deliver the notification within the autonomous vehicle.

Environmental driver comfort feedback for autonomous vehicle

Arrangements related to sensing systems and methods are described. A sensing system can include a sensor track and one or more sensors. The sensor track can be operatively connected to a vehicle surface, such as at least a portion of a perimeter of a roof of a vehicle. The one or more sensors can be operatively connected to the sensor track such that the one or more sensors move along the sensor track while scanning an environment of the vehicle. The sensing systems can include a controller operatively connected to the one or more sensors to control the movement of the one or more sensors along the sensor track. The controller can also receive signals from the one or more sensors relating to the environment. In one or more arrangements, the one or more sensors can include LIDAR sensors.

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John H Marcoux