Vehicle travel control method and vehicle travel control device
AssigneeNissan Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsKatsuhiko Degawa, Takahiro Nojiri, Tatsuya Shino
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Abstract
A travel-lane determination unit determines whether a vehicle has entered a traffic lane on which a toll booth is provided. After it is determined that the vehicle has entered the traffic lane, a travel control unit pulls the vehicle to a position shifted from the center of the traffic lane toward the toll booth in a traffic-lane width direction, by the time when the vehicle reaches the toll booth.
Claims11
A vehicle travel control method for a vehicle travel control device that automatically steers a vehicle, comprising:
- determining whether the vehicle has entered a traffic lane on which a toll booth is provided;
- determining whether the toll booth is a manual-gate toll booth or an automatic-toll-gate;
- and
- in a case where the toll booth is the manual-gate toll booth, pulling the vehicle to a position within the traffic lane that is shifted from a center of the traffic lane toward the toll booth in a traffic-lane width direction, by the time when the vehicle reaches the toll booth.
A vehicle travel control device which comprises a camera that detects traffic lanes and an actuator that steers a vehicle automatically based on traffic-lane information, the device further comprising an electronic control unit configured to:
- determine whether the vehicle has entered a traffic lane on which a toll booth is provided;
- determine whether the toll booth is a manual-gate toll booth or an automatic-toll-gate,
- and
- in a case where the toll booth is the manual-gate toll booth, control travel of the vehicle to a position within the traffic lane that is shifted from a center of the traffic lane toward the toll booth in a traffic-lane width direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.