Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsuteru Kokubun

Eiichi Ono

Masaaki Uechi

Eiichi Yasuda

Akio Matsunaga

Masanori Shimada

Masumi Kobana

Kazuya Sasaki

Yusuke Nozaki

Kazunori Higuchi

Kazukata Takei

Masahiko Mizuno

Noriyoshi Terazawa

An intersection visibility determination device includes an ECU that determines visibility at an intersection. When a host vehicle approaches an intersection with a stop sign, the ECU calculates conflict points at which a trajectory vector of the host vehicle intersects with virtual trajectory vectors of intersecting objects, which are presumed to come from the right side and the left side of the intersection, respectively. The conflict points are calculated based on information on types and traveling positions of the intersecting objects. The ECU sets visibility determination areas at the intersection as viewed from the host vehicle based on the positions of the conflict points, the right-side and the left-side visibility target distances, and the current location of the host vehicle, and calculates, based on the visibility determination areas, visibility distances that are used as visibility parameters indicating whether the visibility at the intersection is good or poor.

Intersection visibility determination device, vehicle with intersection visibility determination device, and method for determining intersection visibility

The present invention provides an acceleration sensation evaluating device that evaluates a sensory acceleration of a driver with respect to an expectation value of acceleration, and a vehicle controller that controls a vehicle according to the evaluation results. The evaluation device detects an amount of operation of the vehicle by the driver of when the vehicle is accelerated, detects an amount of vehicle behavior, computes a physical quantity of an expectation value indicating the expectation value of an acceleration performance which the driver expects based on the detected values, computes a sensory physical quantity indicating a sensation of the acceleration which the driver senses, and computes an evaluation value of the acceleration sensation based on difference or ratio between the physical quantity of the expectation value and the sensory physical quantity.

Acceleration sensation evaluating device and vehicle controller

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Nishikamo-gun, Japan

Mitsuteru Kokubun