Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroaki Seguchi

Akira Nagae

Yasushi Kusaka

Naoki Taki

Hirokazu Kato

Jumpei Kakehi

Nobuyuki Okabe

Takahiro Matsunaga

Shinya Furuta

A controller for a vehicle includes: an engine controller that outputs a stop request to stop an engine when a stop condition is satisfied, and that outputs a start request to start the engine or resume the engine from a stop preparation state when a start condition is satisfied; a brake controller that, at least in a period between the outputs of the requests by the engine controlling part, automatically generates a braking force for keeping parking regardless of a driver's brake operation and that in a case where an accelerator operation amount is smaller than a predetermined ratio, when the start request has been output and the engine is being resumed from the stop preparation state to a normal rotation state, the brake controller reduces a brake pressure to a first predetermined pressure in a shorter time than when the engine is being started from a stopped state.

Control apparatus for vehicle

A control device for a vehicle executes an adaptive cruise control and an idle stop control. The control device automatically starts an internal combustion engine when an operation amount of a start operating member different from a brake pedal is larger than or equal to a predetermined amount while the idle stop control is being executed. The control device sets the predetermined amount to a first predetermined amount when the adaptive cruise control is not executed. The control device sets the predetermined amount to a second predetermined amount smaller than the first predetermined amount when the adaptive cruise control is being executed.

Control device and control method for vehicle

A driver condition estimation apparatusestimates condition of a driver. The driver condition estimation apparatusincludes a driver condition estimating unitfor estimating the condition of the driver before the driver starts driving; and a control variable changing unitfor changing control variables of in-vehicle devices based on the condition of the driver estimated by the driver condition estimating unit

Driver condition estimation apparatus, server, driver information collecting apparatus, and driver condition estimation system

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Hiroaki Seguchi