METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SELECTING AND DETERMINING OIL SUPPLY, GAS FILLING AND ELECTRICITY CHARGING PLACES WHEN OIL SUPPLY, GAS FILLING AND ELECTRICITY CHARGING ARE REQUIRED IN AUTOMATIC DRIVE

摘要

To realize a function by which a vehicle based on automatic drive (vehicle with one or more wheels and having motive power, including a passenger car, a commercial car and a truck), or a floating vehicle with no wheel or one or more wheels determines a situation where oil supply, gas filling or electricity charging is required during automatic drive and selects an oil supply place or an electricity charging place without human intervention.SOLUTION: A remaining amount of fuel or a remaining battery life is checked, a remaining travelable distance is computed, or travelable distance information is acquired from a travel distance computing device, and a route is derived from map information or GPS information under a discretionary condition, such as for minimizing the direction of a destination and a detour distance to the destination, with the route delivered to an automatic drive device, or an automatic drive program, or a navigation system. Furthermore, information as to whether an oil supply, a gas filling or electricity charging is possible is given from the respective oil supply, gas filling and electricity charging facilities via a network, to ensure that no facilities where oil supply, gas filling or electricity charging is impossible will be selected, whereby a traveling impossible state due to fuel or electricity shortage during automatic drive is avoided.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1