Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsDaichi KATO, Mo ZHANG, Chihiro OGURO, Nozomu HIROSAWA
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Abstract
On a road on which a first lane, a second lane, and a third lane or a road shoulder are adjacent to each other, a vehicle control device executes an automatic lane change from the first lane to the second lane. In the case that a traffic regulating object that regulates passage of traffic in the third lane or on the road shoulder is placed in the third lane or on the road shoulder, and an external environment recognition unit recognizes the traffic regulating object, a lane change control unit restricts the automatic lane change.
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 second lane, and a third lane or a road shoulder are adjacent to each other, execute the automatic lane change from the first lane to the second lane;
- and
- in a case that a traffic regulating object that regulates passage of traffic is placed in the third lane or on the road shoulder and the traffic regulating object is recognized, restrict the automatic lane change.
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 second lane, and a third lane or a road shoulder are adjacent to each other, executing the automatic lane change from the first lane to the second lane;
- and
- in a case that a traffic regulating object that regulates passage of traffic is placed in the third lane or on the road shoulder, and the traffic regulating object is recognized, restricting the automatic lane change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.