Patent ID: 11964611
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 6:
7. A vehicle comprising a lighting control system that autonomously controls interior lights of a vehicle based on driving conditions comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors;
a network interface module configured for vehicle-to-vehicle communication; and
machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that cause the one or more processors to control an illumination setting of an interior light of the vehicle based on a vehicle-to-vehicle communication;
wherein the one or more processors configured to turn the interior light ON if the vehicle-to-vehicle communication indicates to the controller that the nearby vehicle is an emergency vehicle and the controller determines that the occupied vehicle is stopped;
wherein the controller is configured to reduce an intensity level of the interior light of the occupied vehicle if the interior light is ON and the vehicle speed increases.