Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Shimpei Kokubo

Terumoto Komori

Satoru Akahane

A travel control device performs blind area avoidance control when a host vehicle is in a blind area, a relative speed which is a value obtained by subtracting a speed of the host vehicle from a speed of an adjacent vehicle is larger than a first relative speed threshold value, the relative speed is smaller than a second relative speed threshold value, and an elapsed time from the point of time the host vehicle entered the blind area is an elapsed time threshold value or more and does not perform the blind area avoidance control when the host vehicle is not in the blind area, when the relative speed is the first relative speed threshold value or less, when the relative speed is the second relative speed threshold value or more, or when the elapsed time is shorter than the elapsed time threshold value.

Travel control device, travel control method, and non-transitory recording medium

A travel control device includes acquisition part acquiring surrounding vehicle information and surrounding road environment information of a host vehicle and control part performing blind area avoidance control based on the surrounding vehicle information, the surrounding vehicle information includes a detection result of an adjacent vehicle traveling on a lane adjacent to a lane on which the host vehicle is traveling by a side sensor provided in the host vehicle, and the control part performs at least one of determining whether the host vehicle is overtaking the adjacent vehicle and suppressing the blind area avoidance control while the host vehicle is overtaking the adjacent vehicle, and determining whether the adjacent vehicle is overtaking the host vehicle and suppressing the blind area avoidance control while the adjacent vehicle is overtaking the host vehicle.

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Shimpei Kokubo