Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masaru Kanda

Shotaro Odate

Naotaka Kumakiri

Naoto Sen

Toshihiko Sato

Hideto Nebuya

Kohei Maruyama

Go Suzaki

Hirotaka Takiguchi

Naohiro Sakamoto

Takayuki Yoshimura

Provided is a drive assistance device for a self-driving car with which drive assistance is less liable to be deactivated, even if an abnormality of a monitoring device for monitoring a state of a driver occurs. A device checking ECU checks whether a plurality of monitoring devices for monitoring the state of the driver are normal or abnormal. On the basis of the check result, an assistance degree determination unit (function availability determination unit) determines a use degree (availability) of a plurality of drive assistance functions (ACC function, LKAS function, and ALC function) including an ACC function. Drive assistance effected by a vehicle with respect to the driver is therefore less liable to be deactivated.

Drive assistance device

An accelerator pedal reaction force control device for controlling a depression reaction force of an accelerator pedal provided to a motor vehicle, the control device including: a reaction force actuator that provides the accelerator pedal with a depression reaction force; a target reaction force setting unit that sets a target depression reaction force; and a vehicle speed maintenance depression amount setting unit that sets an amount of depression of the accelerator pedal for maintaining a current vehicle speed as a vehicle speed maintenance depression amount, wherein, when a pedal depression amount exceeds the vehicle speed maintenance depression amount, the target reaction force setting unit performs a cruize assist whereby the target depression reaction force is set to a value of a cruize assist depression reaction force.

Accelerator pedal reaction force control device

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Wako, Japan

Masaru Kanda