Patent ID: 11912276
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a controller configured to execute:
periodically acquiring relative speed between two vehicles which are traveling on a same road; and
performing predetermined processing in a case where a number of times that a polarity of the relative speed is inverted in a first period exceeds a first threshold, wherein

the predetermined processing includes causing at least one of the two vehicles to switch from manual driving to autonomous driving in the case where the number of times that the polarity of the relative speed is inverted in the first period exceeds the first threshold,
the controller is configured to determine the first threshold on a basis of positional relationship between the two vehicles, and
the controller is configured to set the first threshold smaller in a case where the two vehicles are traveling side by side than in a case where the two vehicles are traveling in single file.