Device and Method for Controlling Vehicle

Abstract

A device for controlling a host vehicle includes a sensor for obtaining sound associated with a target vehicle, and a controller configured to determine, based on the sound associated with the target vehicle, an estimated path of the target vehicle, determine, based on a map of an area associated with the host vehicle, road information associated with the estimated path of the target vehicle, determine, based on the road information, whether the target vehicle is anticipated to merge onto a route of the host vehicle, and, based on a determination that the target vehicle is anticipated to merge onto the route of the host vehicle, cause the host vehicle to take an evasive action.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.