Vehicle control apparatus
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsToshiyuki Mizuno, Takayuki Kishi, Yoshiaki Konishi, Makoto Kurihara
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus capable of executing control to cause a vehicle to automatically follow a preceding vehicle, includes a determination unit configured to determine, based on internal information of the vehicle, whether to request an increase of a cruising speed of the preceding vehicle during automatic following to the preceding vehicle, and a request transmission unit configured to transmit an increase request for requesting to increase the cruising speed of the preceding vehicle in a case in which the determination unit determines to request the increase of the cruising speed.
Claims7
A vehicle control apparatus capable of executing control to cause a vehicle to automatically follow a preceding vehicle, comprising:
- a controller including at least one processor and at least one storage device and configured to perform
- determining, based on internal information of the vehicle, whether to request an increase of a cruising speed of the preceding vehicle during automatic following to the preceding vehicle;
- and
- transmitting an increase request for requesting to increase the cruising speed of the preceding vehicle in a case in which it is determined in the determining to request the increase of the cruising speed,
- wherein in the determining, it is determined to request the increase of the cruising speed on condition that a difference between the cruising speed of the preceding vehicle and a desired vehicle speed of the vehicle, which is higher than a current vehicle speed of the vehicle, is not more than a predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.