METHOD OF SWITCHING VEHICLE DRIVE MODE FROM AUTOMATIC DRIVE MODE TO MANUAL DRIVE MODE DEPENDING ON ACCURACY OF DETECTING OBJECT

摘要

An apparatus includes a memory, and circuitry which, in operation, performs operations including, storing, in the memory, an object occurrence map defining an occurrence area where there is a possibility that an object appears, detecting the object included in a captured image of a scene seen in a running direction of a vehicle, switching a vehicle drive mode, based on a result of the detection of the object and the object occurrence map, from an automatic drive mode in which the vehicle is automatically driven to a manual drive mode in which the vehicle is driven manually by a driver, and controlling driving of the vehicle in the switched manual drive mode.