Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsTakuya KUME, Kazuki Izumi
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Abstract
A technique for a vehicle configured to execute automated driving without monitoring obligation is described. A traveling environment of the vehicle is specified. Parallel-traveling avoiding control is executed based on the traveling environment specified by the traveling environment specifying unit during the automated driving without monitoring obligation. The parallel-traveling avoiding control is travel control of the vehicle to avoid a parallel traveling state in which the vehicle and an adjacent vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to a traveling lane of the vehicle travel in parallel.
Claims20
A vehicle control device configured to be used in a subject vehicle configured to execute automated driving without monitoring obligation, the automated driving without monitoring obligation being automated driving in which there is no obligation of surrounding monitoring, the vehicle control device comprising:
- a traveling environment specifying unit configured to specify a traveling environment of the subject vehicle;
- and
- a parallel-traveling avoiding unit configured to execute parallel-traveling avoiding control based on the traveling environment specified by the traveling environment specifying unit during the automated driving without monitoring obligation, the parallel-traveling avoiding control being travel control of the subject vehicle to avoid a parallel traveling state in which the subject vehicle and an adjacent vehicle travel in parallel, the adjacent vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to a traveling lane of the subject vehicle.
A vehicle control method executed by at least one processor in a subject vehicle configured to execute automated driving without monitoring obligation, the automated driving without monitoring obligation being automated driving in which there is no obligation of surrounding monitoring, the method comprising:
- specifying a traveling environment of the subject vehicle;
- and
- executing parallel-traveling avoiding control based on the traveling environment specified in the specifying during the automated driving without monitoring obligation, the parallel-traveling avoiding control being travel control of the subject vehicle to avoid a parallel traveling state in which the subject vehicle and an adjacent vehicle travel in parallel, the adjacent vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to a traveling lane of the subject vehicle.
A vehicle control device configured to be used in a subject vehicle configured to execute automated driving without monitoring obligation, the automated driving without monitoring obligation being automated driving in which there is no obligation of surrounding monitoring, the vehicle control device comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory storing a program configured to, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the processor to carry out:
- specifying a traveling environment of the subject vehicle, and
- executing parallel-traveling avoiding control based on the traveling environment specified in the specifying during the automated driving without monitoring obligation, the parallel-traveling avoiding control being travel control of the subject vehicle to avoid a parallel traveling state in which the subject vehicle and an adjacent vehicle travel in parallel, the adjacent vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to a traveling lane of the subject vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.