Vehicle control apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuya OKAMOTO
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus executes a collision risk reduction control to reduce a collision risk when a collision condition is satisfied. The collision condition is based on a relative relationship between a host vehicle and an object ahead of the host vehicle and is satisfied when there is a collision risk that the host vehicle collides with the object. The vehicle control apparatus performs a change process to change the collision condition such that the collision condition is made difficult to be satisfied when a first condition and a second condition are satisfied. The first condition is a condition that the object exists in an adjacent lane. The second condition is a condition that a length of the object in a traveling direction of the host vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined length.
Claims4
A vehicle control apparatus comprising an electronic control unit configured to execute a collision risk reduction control to reduce a collision risk when a collision condition is satisfied,
- the collision condition being a condition based on a relative relationship between a host vehicle and a target object ahead of the host vehicle and being satisfied when there is a collision risk that the host vehicle collides with the target object,
- wherein the electronic control unit is configured to perform a change process to change the collision condition such that the collision condition is made difficult to be satisfied when a first condition and a second condition are satisfied,
- the first condition is a condition that the target object exists in a lane adjacent to a lane in which the host vehicle is traveling, and
- the second condition is a condition that a length of the target object in a traveling direction of the host vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined length.
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