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US 2021/0240181 A1Published application
Driving assistance device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKentaro ICHIKAWA, Toshiki KINDO
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Abstract
A driving assistance device, including an automated driving switch; an emergency button; and a controller configured to provide either automated driving in which travel is performed along a current travel path of a host vehicle or automated stopping in response to manipulation by a driver of the automated driving switch or of the emergency button.
Claims10
A driving assistance device, comprising:
- an input switch configured to be used to input an instruction for automated driving of a vehicle;
- and
- a controller configured
- to determine whether or not an automated driving destination has been set,
- if the instruction for automated driving of the vehicle has been input by the input switch and the automated driving destination has been set, to generate a route of the vehicle to the automated driving destination and to control the vehicle to travel along the route to the automated driving destination,
- if the instruction for automated driving of the vehicle has been input by the input switch and the automated driving destination has not been set, to determine whether or not a driver of the vehicle has a travel continuation intention,
- if the driver of the vehicle has the travel continuation intention, to generate a route along a current travel path of the vehicle and to control the vehicle to travel along the route along the current travel path of the vehicle, and
- if the driver of the vehicle does not have the travel continuation intention, to generate a route in order to perform automated stopping and to control the vehicle to travel along the route in order to perform automated stopping.
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A driving assistance method, comprising:
- inputting by an input switch an instruction for a vehicle to be in an automated driving operation state;
- determining whether or not an automated driving destination has been set;
- if the instruction for the vehicle to be in the automated driving operation state has been input by the input switch and the automated driving destination has been set, generating a route of the vehicle to the automated driving destination and controlling the vehicle to travel along the route to the automated driving destination,
- if the instruction for the vehicle to be in the automated driving operation state has been input by the input switch and the automated driving destination has not been set, determining whether or not a driver of the vehicle has a travel continuation intention,
- if the driver of the vehicle has the travel continuation intention, generating a route along a current travel path of the vehicle and controlling the vehicle to travel along the route along the current travel path of the vehicle, and
- if the driver of the vehicle does not have the travel continuation intention, generating a route in order to perform automated stopping and controlling the vehicle to travel along the route in order to perform automated stopping.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.