Vehicle control apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYusuke Nakade
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes: a brake control portion which is configured, when a vehicle is stopped, to cause a braking apparatus to keep a stopped state in which the vehicle is held stopped independently of operation of a brake pedal of the vehicle; a driver-assistance control portion which is configured to start a driver assistance operation in response to a manual operation made by the operator, and which is configured, when the stopped state is kept by the brake control portion, to withhold start of the driver assistance operation; and a withhold cancel portion which is configured, when a returning operation of the brake pedal has been made by the operator, to cause the driver-assistance control portion to cancel withhold of the start of the driver assistance operation.
Claims7
A control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:
- a processor programmed to
- when the vehicle is stopped, cause a braking apparatus of the vehicle to keep a stopped state of the vehicle in which the vehicle is held stopped independently of operation of a brake pedal of the vehicle made by an operator of the vehicle;
- start a driver assistance operation in response to a manual operation made by the operator, and which is configured, when the stopped state is kept by the processor, to withhold a start of the driver assistance operation;
- cancel the stopped state of the vehicle, when the brake pedal is placed in a depressed state by the operator while the start of the driver assistance operation is withheld by said processor with the stopped state of the vehicle being kept by said processor;
- and
- when a returning operation of the brake pedal has been made by the operator, cancel the withhold of the start of the driver assistance operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.