Travel assistance device, travel assistance system, and travel assistance method
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Onishi, Yuji Inoue
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Abstract
A travel assistance device for assisting traveling of a subsequent vehicle following a vehicle group in the form of vehicle platooning, the travel assistance device being located in a last vehicle of a plurality of vehicles included in the vehicle group, the travel assistance device including: an information acquiring unit for acquiring information indicating right/left turning vehicles that turn right or left at an intersection among the vehicles and information indicating deceleration timing of a first vehicle from front among the right/left turning vehicles; and a direction indicator controlling unit for turning on a direction indicator of the last vehicle at the deceleration timing of the foremost right/left turning vehicle.
Claims12
A travel assistance device for assisting traveling of a subsequent vehicle traveling behind a vehicle group, the vehicle group comprising a plurality of vehicles forming and operating as a vehicle platoon, the travel assistance device being located in a last vehicle of the plurality of vehicles included in the vehicle group, the travel assistance device comprising:
- processing circuitry to
- acquire information indicating right-or-left turning vehicles that turn right or left at an intersection among the plurality of vehicles and information indicating deceleration timing of a forefront right-or-left turning vehicle, the forefront right-or-left turning vehicle being a first vehicle to turn right or left at the intersection from among the right-or-left turning vehicles;
- and
- turn on a direction indicator of the last vehicle at the deceleration timing of the forefront right-or-left turning vehicle.
A travel assistance system for assisting traveling of a subsequent vehicle traveling behind a vehicle group, the vehicle group comprising a plurality of vehicles forming and operating as a vehicle platoon, the travel assistance system being at least partly located in a last vehicle of the plurality of vehicles included in the vehicle group, the travel assistance system comprising:
- processing circuitry to
- acquire information indicating right-or-left turning vehicles that turn right or left at an intersection among the plurality of vehicles and information indicating deceleration timing of a forefront right-or-left turning vehicle, the forefront right-or-left turning vehicle being a first vehicle to turn right or left at the intersection from among the right-or-left turning vehicles;
- and
- turn on a direction indicator of the last vehicle at the deceleration timing of the forefront right-or-left turning vehicle.
A travel assistance method for assisting traveling of a subsequent vehicle traveling behind a vehicle group, the vehicle group comprising a plurality of vehicles forming and operating as a vehicle platoon, the travel assistance method being performed in a last vehicle of the plurality of vehicles included in the vehicle group, the travel assistance method comprising:
- acquiring, information indicating right-or-left turning vehicles that turn right or left at an intersection among the plurality of vehicles and information indicating deceleration timing of a forefront right-or-left turning vehicle, the forefront right-or-left turning vehicle being a first vehicle to turn right or left at the intersection from among the right-or-left turning vehicles;
- and
- turning on, a direction indicator of the last vehicle at the deceleration timing of the forefront right-or-left turning vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.