Patent ID: 11904879
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An information processing apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprising:
a controller configured to:
determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, and
perform, when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is driving dangerously, a first control process of determining a second value of output of a machine mounted on the vehicle according to first information based on a first stroke amount of an accelerator pedal and outputting the second value to the machine to cause the machine to output at the second value, wherein
the second value of the output of the machine is smaller than a first value of the output of the machine that is determined according to the first information based on the first stroke amount of the accelerator pedal when it is determined that the driver of the vehicle is not driving dangerously,
the second value of the output of the machine and the first value of the output of the machine both correspond to the same first stroke amount,
in the first control process, the controller acquires position information on the vehicle, determines a road where the vehicle is traveling is an expressway or a local road based on the position information, and determines the second value of the output of the machine in such a way that the second value of the output of the machine is greater in a case where the road where the vehicle is traveling is the expressway than in a case where the road where the vehicle is traveling is the local road, and
in the first control process, when the driver treads the accelerator pedal by the first stroke amount and the output of the machine is the second value, the controller causes audio data of sound that is generated by the output of the machine at the second value to be output from a speaker provided in the vehicle at a volume that is the same as when the driver treads the accelerator pedal by the first stroke amount and the output of the machine is the first value.