Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shunya Ishikawa

Keisuke Oka

Yohei Kitahara

Shinya Maruo

Yasushi Fujimoto

Eiji Kittaka

Masayuki Fujita

Naoki Sakamoto

Hiroyuki Makita

Masayuki Nakatsuka

Taisuke Nimura

Hiroyuki Kaneta

Yoshiaki Sawano

A driving assistance device mounted in a vehicle operates together with an automated driving control device for automatically controlling steering, acceleration, and deceleration of the vehicle in either of a first state in which a driver is not gripping a steering operation element and a second state in which the driver is gripping the steering operation element, the driving assistance device including a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions and at least one processor connected to the storage medium. The at least one processor makes an operation start condition of a second preliminary operation strict when the automated driving control device is operating in the first state as compared with when the automated driving control device is not operating.

Driving assistance device, vehicle control system, and driving assistance method

At least one processor executes a first preliminary operation control process of notifying that an object is present when an indicator value is less than a second threshold and there is a travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel on one of left and right sides of the object and executes a second preliminary operation control process of notifying a driver when the indicator value is less than a third threshold and there is no travel path on both left and right sides of the object. The second preliminary operation or the first preliminary operation is executed when the indicator value is less than the third threshold, there is a travel path along which the vehicle is able to travel, and it is estimated that there is an interfering object in the travel path on the assumption that the vehicle has approached the object.

Driving assistance device, driving assistance method, and storage medium

A braking force control apparatus in a motorcycle, includes a controller which controls a transmission to reduces driving force of an engine by a predetermined speed reduction ratio and transmits the driving force to a drive wheel of a vehicle, a clutch between the engine and the transmission, and brake devices which generate braking force on the wheels. The vehicle is switchable between a normal and a slow speed driving modes. In the slow speed mode the controller detects an inclination pitching angle &#x3b8;, and causes the brake devices to generate braking force on at least one of the drive wheels when &#x3b8;&#x2267;a predetermined value, then starts switching the clutch to a connected state when a driving operation is input, and gradually releases the braking force once driving force starts to be transmitted to the drive wheel.

Braking force control apparatus for saddle ride vehicle

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Wako, Japan

Shunya Ishikawa