Processing apparatus for autonomous vehicles undergoing suspension of vehicle operation
An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, when a suspension of operation occurs in an autonomous vehicle, positional information, vehicle information, a vehicle internal image, and a vehicle external image of the autonomous vehicle, and determine, in a case in which a suspension of operation occurs in a plurality of autonomous vehicles, an order of priority for a rescue team to go to the plurality of vehicles, based on the positional information, the vehicle information, the vehicle internal image, and the vehicle external image.
1. An information processing system comprising:
a server that includes a controller and a memory; and
a plurality of autonomous vehicles that communicate with the server via a network, wherein each of the plurality of autonomous vehicles include:
a global position satellite (GPS) receiver configured to obtain positional information of an autonomous vehicle, including a latitude and a longitude of the autonomous vehicle, that is transmitted to the server at predetermined intervals and saved in the memory;
an emergency button located in an interior of the autonomous vehicle configured to be executed by a user in the autonomous vehicle to notify the server that a suspension of operation has occurred in the autonomous vehicle; and
a camera configured to obtain a vehicle internal image and a vehicle external image of the autonomous vehicle that is transmitted to the server at predetermined intervals and saved in the memory,
wherein the controller of the server is configured to:
determine that more than one of the plurality of autonomous vehicles has a suspension of operation when the emergency button has been executed in more than one of the plurality of autonomous vehicles,
based upon a condition that the emergency button has been executed, control the doors of the autonomous vehicles to be openable and closable manually in order to allow the passengers in the autonomous vehicles to open the doors manually and exit,
acquire from the memory positional information, vehicle information, and the vehicle internal image, and the vehicle external image of each of the autonomous vehicles; and
perform an image analysis on each vehicle internal image to obtain a number of passengers in each of the autonomous vehicles;
determine a width of a road on which each of the autonomous vehicles is stopped based on the positional information and the vehicle external image;
determine a type of lane in which each of the autonomous vehicles is stopped based on the positional information and the vehicle external image;
determine a type of failure of each of the autonomous vehicles based on the vehicle information;
estimate a time required to repair a failure of each of the autonomous vehicles based on the vehicle information;
based upon the condition that the emergency button has been executed in more than one of the plurality of autonomous vehicles, calculate a priority index for each of the autonomous vehicles by multiplying a weighting factor for each of: the number of passengers, the width of the road, the type of lane, the type of failure, and the time required to repair the failure; and
transmit to a terminal apparatus of a rescue team, via the network, an order of priority for the autonomous vehicles based on the priority index.