Driving control apparatus for vehicle

A driving control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:

• an environmental condition estimating part including a surrounding recognition function for recognizing a vehicle's lane and neighboring lanes and other vehicles in the respective lanes and a function for obtaining the vehicle's moving state;
• a path generating part for generating a target path on the basis of information obtained by the environmental condition estimating part;
• and
• a vehicle control part configured to perform speed control and steering control for causing the vehicle to follow the target path, and having
• a vehicle ahead following function for driving targeting a vehicle ahead,
• wherein the driving control apparatus has a function for altering override threshold values serving as a determination criterion of the operation intervention for stopping the vehicle ahead following function and a path following function to a value greater than during driving in a general section with lane markings when the vehicle's own position passes through a toll gate or a section with lane markings before and after the toll gate.

A driving control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:

• an environmental condition estimating part including a surrounding recognition function for recognizing a vehicle's lane and neighboring lanes and other vehicles in the respective lanes and a function for obtaining the vehicle's moving state;
• a path generating part for generating a target path on the basis of information obtained by the environmental condition estimating part;
• and
• a vehicle control part configured to perform speed control and steering control for causing the vehicle to follow the target path, having:
• a vehicle ahead following function for driving targeting a vehicle ahead;
• and
• a function for notifying a driver of stopping the vehicle ahead following function or a path following function and operation takeover and performing fallback control of the functions when it is detected that another vehicle enters the vehicle's predetermined area by the surrounding recognition function during driving in a section with no lane marking after passing through the toll plaza,
• wherein the driving control apparatus has a function for altering override threshold values serving as a determination criterion of the operation intervention for stopping the functions to a value greater than during driving in a general section with lane markings when notifying the driver of the function stop and operation takeover.