Nissan Motor Company Limited

Renault S.a.s.

Tatsuya Shino

Atsushi Ito

Akira Morimoto

Takahiro Nojiri

Katsuhiko Degawa

Yasuhiko Takae

Shuko Ishimaru

Yohei Taniguchi

Nariaki Etori

Toshihiro Asai

Takahiro Yano

Shuhei Emoto

Takashi Sunda

A vehicle control method executed by a processor for controlling a subject vehicle includes: acquiring, from a sensor for detecting a state of surroundings of the subject vehicle, detection data of another vehicle traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to a travel lane in which the subject vehicle is traveling, and setting, on the adjacent lane, a target point for the subject vehicle to change a lane from the travel lane to the adjacent lane based on a position relationship between the subject vehicle and the other vehicle, specifying the other vehicle that is located behind the target point as a rear vehicle, and starting blinking of the direction indicator of the subject vehicle when a rear end of the subject vehicle is located ahead of the front end of the rear vehicle.

Vehicle control method and vehicle control device

An autonomous driving control method carried out by an autonomous driving control system having an autonomous driving control unit that executes an autonomous driving control for causing a host vehicle to travel along a target travel route generated on a map, comprising setting one or a plurality of target passage gates through which the host vehicle is scheduled to pass during passage through a toll plaza, determining the presence or absence of a preceding vehicle that has the predicted passage gate that matches the target passage gate of the host vehicle from among a plurality of preceding vehicles, and carrying out following travel using the preceding vehicle that has the predicted passage gate that matches the target passage gate as a follow target.

Autonomous driving control method and autonomous driving control system

A direction indicator control unit obtains a position of an entry road and a position of an exit road of a roundabout determined to be present on a presumed traveling route of a vehicle, and determines a necessity of directional indication when entering the roundabout in accordance with a relationship between the position of the entry road and the position of the exit road.

Direction indicator control method and direction indicator control device

An automated lane change control detects a preceding vehicle that is traveling in a same travel lane as a host vehicle, determines whether a predetermined condition is satisfied between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle, and executes an automated lane change in the host vehicle after a first predetermined time has elapsed from determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied. The automated lane change of the host vehicle is executed after a first predetermined time has elapsed after determining that the predetermined condition has been satisfied. A second predetermined time is set that is longer than the first predetermined time as a time for prohibiting the automated lane change upon assessing the presents of a previous driver lane change. The automated lane change is prohibited in an interval that starts when a prohibiting condition is satisfied and ends when the second predetermined time elapses.

Automated lane change control method and automated lane change control device

A direction indicator control unit inhibits direction indicators of a host vehicle from making a directional indication when the host vehicle enters a roundabout determined to be present along a presumed traveling route on which the host vehicle is presumed to travel. A direction indicator control method also inhibits direction indicators.

A travel-lane determination unit determines whether a vehicle is going to enter a traffic lane on which a toll booth is provided. After it is determined that the vehicle is going to enter the traffic lane, a travel control unit stops the vehicle at a position before the toll booth in a travel direction of the vehicle.

Vehicle travel control method and vehicle travel control device

A travel-lane determination unit determines whether a vehicle has entered a traffic lane on which a toll booth is provided. After it is determined that the vehicle has entered the traffic lane, a travel control unit pulls the vehicle to a position shifted from the center of the traffic lane toward the toll booth in a traffic-lane width direction, by the time when the vehicle reaches the toll booth.

In lane selection control in which a lane in which a host vehicle travels is selected based on the map information and information acquired by an external sensor that acquires periphery information of the host vehicle, a self-position correction object in an intended travel route is identified based on the map information. When the host vehicle reaches a correction point where the self-position correction object is present, a determination is made as to whether or not the self-position correction object can be recognized by the external sensor from the lane in which the host vehicle travels. Upon determined that the self-position correction object cannot be recognized from the center lane in which the host vehicle travels, a lane change to a leftmost lane where the self-position correction object can be recognized is made before the host vehicle reaches the correction point.

Self-position correction method and self-position correction device for drive-assisted vehicle

A direction indicator is configured to start blinking in response to an operation of a driver of a subject vehicle and automatically turn off after a first blinking time elapses. When the subject vehicle changes lanes in an automated or autonomous manner due to the operation of the driver, a control apparatus is used to extend the first blinking time to a second blinking time longer than the first blinking time and control the direction indicator to automatically turn off.

Method for controlling direction indicator and device for controlling direction indicator

A display control method includes displaying the detection state of a detector on a display device using an agent displayed on the display device. The detector detects a surrounding object. This method further includes determining the detection state of the detector on the basis of the detection result of the detector and setting the facial expression of the agent on the basis of the detection state of the detector.

Display device control method and display device

A display control method includes performing display control of detection information of an object detected by a detector including a camera. The detection information includes a first image based on a captured image captured by the camera and a second image based on an image rendered on the basis of a detection result of the detector. The display control method further includes switching and displaying the first image and the second image in accordance with a vehicle speed index of a vehicle.

Display control method and display control device

The vehicular notification device comprises luminescent devices provided on the roof of a vehicle and a notification control device configured to control the luminescent devices to emit light when a person existing around the vehicle is detected. The luminescent devices are provided so as to extend in the vehicle's front-back direction on both sides in the vehicle's width direction of the roof.

Vehicular notification device

A travel control method comprises detecting a travel state of the subject vehicle including a position and a speed of the subject vehicle, acquiring obstacle information including a position and a speed of the obstacle, estimating the second range after a predetermined time on the basis of the travel state of the subject vehicle and the obstacle information, and announcing announcement information that the second range will become small to a driver of the subject vehicle when the second range is estimated to become small after the predetermined time.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tatsuya Shino