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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2019
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
James J. Kuffner, Jr., Saratoga, CA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
Providing user assistance in a vehicle includes identifying a traffic behavior of an object in an environment surrounding the vehicle based on an evaluation of information about the environment surrounding the vehicle while the vehicle is in the midst of manual operation, and issuing an alert to a user prompting the user to implement defensive manual operation. The user assistance further includes receiving a traffic behavior model that describes a predominating traffic behavior of a like population of reference objects, and issuing the alert to a user prompting the user to implement defensive manual operation in response to identifying that the traffic behavior of the object does not match the predominating traffic behavior of the like population of reference objects. Under the defensive manual operation, the traffic behavior of the object is addressed.