Control device for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsuya Kishimoto
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Abstract
A processor of an ECU includes: an uphill road determination unit that determines whether or not there is an uphill road continuing for a certain distance or more forward of a vehicle; a determination unit that determines whether or not a reaching time or a reaching distance required for the vehicle to enter the uphill road from a present position is equal to or lower than a predetermined value; and a notification unit that notifies, when the reaching time or the reaching distance becomes equal to or lower than the predetermined value, a driver of an activation proposal of activating a speed maintaining function.
Claims7
A control device for a vehicle, the control device comprising:
- a processor configured to:
- determine whether or not there is an uphill road continuing for a certain distance or more forward of the vehicle;
- determine, in response to determining that there is the uphill road forward of the vehicle, whether or not a reaching time or a reaching distance required for the vehicle to enter the uphill road from a present position is equal to or lower than a predetermined value;
- notify, in response to the reaching time or the reaching distance becoming equal to or lower than the predetermined value, a driver of an activation proposal of activating a speed maintaining function of the vehicle;
- receive a response of the driver with respect to the activation proposal;
- and
- end notification of the activation proposal in response to determining that the vehicle has entered the uphill road without reception of the response,
- wherein
- the processor is further configured to not notify, in response to the uphill road not continuing for the certain distance, the driver of the activation proposal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.