Denso Corporation

Denso Corpora Tion

Masayoshi Oishi

Koji Fujiki

Hiroaki Niino

Shotaro Fukuda

Takeshi Miura

A reception unit receives a command which is either a leftward lane change command or a rightward lane change command. A traveling control unit controls the lane change, based on the lane change command. A lighting control unit turns on a direction indicator. A command determination unit causes the traveling control unit to cancel control of both the leftward and rightward lane changes and causes the lighting control unit to turn off the direction indicator, in spite of the reception unit receiving a first lane change command to either leftward or rightward direction as a lane change, and the traveling control unit starting first lane change control, if a second lane change command, which is in a direction opposite to the first lane change, is received before part of the vehicle enters an adjacent lane which is adjacent to a traveling lane where the vehicle travels.

Driving support apparatus

A traveling assist device includes a recognition unit, a traveling control unit, a sensor determination unit, and a control decision unit. The sensor determination unit determines whether surrounding detection sensors are normal or not. The control decision unit decides whether the traveling control unit controls a lane change based on the result of determination by the sensor determination unit.

Traveling assist device

A driving support apparatus includes a driving support unit, a switching control unit, a reliability detection unit, and a threshold lowering unit. The switching control unit ceases driving support by the driving support unit and switches a driving state from driving in which the driving support is performed to manual driving, according to input from an operation detection unit when operating force or an operation amount exceeds a threshold. The reliability detection unit detects degradation of reliability of the driving support by the driving support unit. The threshold lowering unit lowers the threshold when the reliability detection unit detects the degradation of the reliability.

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Kariya, Japan

Masayoshi Oishi