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AssigneesNissan Motor Co., Ltd., RENAULT s.a.s.
InventorsYasuhisa Hayakawa, Yasuhiro Sakurai, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Junichi Kuwabara
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A method performs autonomous travel control of a subject vehicle to a target stop position on the basis of a remote operation command from a remote operation device. The subject vehicle has an autonomous travel control function and an automatic locking/unlocking function for a vehicle door. The autonomous travel control is executed under a precondition that a locking/unlocking device for the door is unlocked. The method includes prohibiting the automatic locking/unlocking function from locking the door while the vehicle is executing autonomous travel control; detecting a distance between the vehicle and the remote operation device when the vehicle stops at the target stop; setting a temporal interval from when the vehicle stops until the locking/unlocking device for the door is locked using the automatic locking/unlocking function to a temporal interval in accordance with the distance; and locking the door using the automatic locking/unlocking function when the temporal interval has elapsed.
A vehicle travel control method for performing autonomous travel control of a vehicle to a target stop position on a basis of a remote operation command from a remote operation device located outside the vehicle, the vehicle having an autonomous travel control function and an automatic locking/unlocking function for a door of the vehicle, the autonomous travel control being executed under a precondition that a locking/unlocking device for the door is unlocked, the vehicle travel control method comprising:
A vehicle travel control apparatus comprising:
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