Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Noah Mitchell Einstein

Vladimeros Vladimerou

Emily S Lerner

Arlo C Eitzer

David Hernandez

Raja Manas Macherla

Ben J Groelke

Method and systems for determining when to accelerate, decelerate, or maintain current speed of cruise control based on the blindspots of vehicles. Distances between a vehicle and one or more surrounding vehicles are measured using a plurality of sensors. These measurements are used to determine if a vehicle has a surrounding vehicle in its blindspot or if the vehicle is in the blindspot of the surrounding vehicle. Cost calculations are made to determine the individual cost calculations of maintaining current speed versus changing the acceleration. The lowest cost calculation is selected and implemented by the vehicle such that velocity is maintained or acceleration of the vehicle is changed.

Blindspot aware adaptive cruise control

A system for determining a type of a road upon which a vehicle is traveling includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory has a road type determination module having has instructions that cause the processor to determine, using sensor data having information about at least one of a vehicle and a road upon which the vehicle is traveling, that the vehicle previously traveled on a ramp leading to a limited access highway. The road type determination module also has instructions that cause the processor to determine, using the sensor data, that the road is a limited access highway when the vehicle is traveling at or below a first predetermined speed for a first predetermined amount of time sufficiently immediately after determining that the vehicle was traveling on a ramp, and the vehicle is behind one or more preceding slow-moving vehicles.

Systems and methods for road type determination

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Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America

Noah Mitchell Einstein