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US 2021/0276558 A1Published application
Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsChihiro OGURO, Nozomu HIROSAWA, Daichi KATO
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Abstract
A lane change control unit restricts an automatic lane change in the case of predicting that a user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to another vehicle that exists inside of a third lane or on a third lane dividing line, and executes the automatic lane change without restriction in the case of predicting that the user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to another vehicle that exists inside a fourth lane or inside of a road shoulder.
Claims9
A vehicle control device, comprising:
- one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions stored in a memory,
- wherein the one or more processors execute the computer-executable instructions to cause the vehicle control device to:
- recognize a situation of a surrounding periphery of a user's own vehicle;
- execute an automatic lane change by controlling a travel speed and steering of the user's own vehicle, based on a recognition result;
- on a road on which a first lane, a first lane dividing line, a second lane, a second lane dividing line, a third lane, a third lane dividing line, and a fourth lane or a road shoulder are adjacent to each other, execute the automatic lane change from the first lane to the second lane;
- restrict the automatic lane change in a case of predicting that the user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to another vehicle that exists inside of the third lane or on the third lane dividing line;
- and
- execute the automatic lane change without restriction in a case of predicting that the user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to the another vehicle that exists inside of the fourth lane or inside of the road shoulder.
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A vehicle control method, comprising:
- recognizing a situation of a surrounding periphery of a user's own vehicle;
- executing an automatic lane change by controlling a travel speed and steering of the user's own vehicle, based on a recognition result;
- on a road on which a first lane, a first lane dividing line, a second lane, a second lane dividing line, a third lane, a third lane dividing line, and a fourth lane or a road shoulder are adjacent to each other, executing the automatic lane change from the first lane to the second lane;
- restricting the automatic lane change in a case of predicting that the user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to another vehicle that exists inside of the third lane or on the third lane dividing line;
- and
- executing the automatic lane change without restriction in a case of predicting that the user's own vehicle after having made the automatic lane change will be adjacent to the another vehicle that exists inside of the fourth lane or inside of the road shoulder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.