Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, non-transitory storage medium
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasashi NOSE, Tomoaki MIYAZAWA, Kazuya KUMAZAWA, Miki TSUJINO, Tsukasa KITAZAWA
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Abstract
A vehicle control device including a processor that, after a first lane change control has been executed on a vehicle traveling in a cruising lane to move the vehicle to a target lane, is configured to execute a second lane change control on the vehicle to return the vehicle from the target lane to the cruising lane, and a display device that is configured to display a first image expressing information related to a start of the second lane change control prior to the second lane change control being executed on the vehicle traveling in the target lane.
Claims7
A vehicle control device, comprising:
- a processor that, after a first lane change control has been executed on a vehicle traveling in a cruising lane to move the vehicle to a target lane, is configured to execute a second lane change control on the vehicle to return the vehicle from the target lane to the cruising lane;
- and
- a display device that is configured to display a first image expressing information related to a start of the second lane change control prior to the second lane change control being executed on the vehicle traveling in the target lane.
A vehicle control method, comprising, by a processor:
- after a first lane change control has been executed on a vehicle traveling in a cruising lane to move the vehicle to a target lane, executing a second lane change control on the vehicle to return the vehicle from the target lane to the cruising lane;
- and
- displaying a first image expressing information related to a start of the second lane change control prior to the second lane change control being executed on the vehicle traveling in the target lane.
A non-transitory storage medium storing a program executable by a computer to perform processing, the processing comprising:
- after a first lane change control has been executed on a vehicle traveling in a cruising lane to move the vehicle to a target lane, executing a second lane change control on the vehicle to return the vehicle from the target lane to the cruising lane;
- and
- displaying a first image expressing information related to a start of the second lane change control prior to the second lane change control being executed on the vehicle traveling in the target lane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.