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AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakahiro HARADA, Teppei NISHIGUCHI, Kazuki KOMORIYA, Tomoaki IHARA, Miyu HIGASHIMURA, Toshihiro NAKAICHI, Kazunobu OKASAKA, Ryo HATTORI, Yohei TANIGAWA, Ryohei KIMBARA, Hiroshi NAKAMURA
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A travel control device controls traveling of a vehicle of which a traveling function can be switched between an autonomous traveling function and a following traveling function. The travel control device includes a control unit configured to detect, when the vehicle is traveling by the autonomous traveling function, another vehicle present within a predetermined range of the vehicle and of which any part or all of a planned travel route is partially or wholly the same as a planned travel route of the vehicle, and switch the traveling function of the vehicle from the autonomous traveling function to the following traveling function such that the vehicle autonomously follows the other vehicle detected as a leading vehicle.
A travel control device that controls traveling of a vehicle of which a traveling function is switchable between an autonomous traveling function and a following traveling function, the travel control device comprising:
An information processing apparatus that manages, using a travel control device, traveling of a vehicle of which a traveling function is switchable between an autonomous traveling function and a following traveling function, the information processing apparatus comprising:
An information processing method, which is executed by a computer included in a system, the system including a travel control device that controls traveling of a vehicle of which a traveling function is switchable between an autonomous traveling function and a following traveling function, the information processing method comprising:
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