Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahiro Muta

Eisuke Ando

Takao Hishikawa

Yasuhiro Hara

Ayano Tsuruta

Provided is a vehicle control system including a plurality of vehicles, a storage that stores information relating to a user who is on a vehicle for each of the plurality of vehicles, at least one processor configured to receive a matching request for requesting meeting with a user who is on one of the plurality of vehicles, specify a first vehicle which a first user matching the matching request is on, on the basis of the information stored in the storage and perform control on the first vehicle so as to let the first vehicle and a requesting source of the matching request meet each other.

Vehicle control system and method for coordinating in-person meetings

A moving body system for controlling operation of moving bodies comprises an accepter configured to accept utilization requests for requesting utilization of the moving bodies corresponding to respective users in order that the plurality of users gather by using the moving bodies corresponding to the respective users; an acquirer configured to acquire scheduled working times of the respective users in the moving bodies when the respective users move by the moving bodies corresponding thereto respectively; and a determiner configured to determine a meeting place at which the respective users gather, the determiner determining the meeting place so that the meeting place gets closer to a getting-on position of the user who has the scheduled working time shorter than that of the other user or those of the other users.

Moving body system and operation control method

A mobile object system dispatches a vehicle capable of moving autonomously to a destination at which a user is located. The system includes a controller comprising at least one processor configured to receive a request for use of a vehicle provided with first equipment, and send to the vehicle a first command to travel to a first destination designating a place where at least a part of the first equipment is present as a first stopover place. The vehicle in the mobile object system travels, in accordance with the first command to travel, from the first stopover place to the first destination after loading of at least a part of the first equipment onto the vehicle at the first stopover place is completed to complete the first equipment.

Mobile object system and control method for mobile object system

There is provided an electric automobile including: a battery installed beneath a floor of a vehicle cabin; a driving unit provided at either one side, in a vehicle longitudinal direction, with respect to the battery; a high-voltage part disposed at the one side with respect to the battery and further toward a vehicle longitudinal direction inner side than an end portion at the one side of the driving unit and electrically connected to the driving unit; a control unit disposed at the one side with respect to the battery and further toward the vehicle longitudinal direction inner side than the end portion of the driving unit, and that controls autonomous driving of the vehicle; and an accessory part disposed further toward a vehicle longitudinal direction outer side than the end portion of the driving unit and independent from a control system that relates to traveling.

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Mishima, Japan

Takahiro Muta