Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yu Sakai

Hiroaki Tabuchi

Takahiro Adachi

Yasutaka Oda

Kota Kimura

During execution of steering reaction force control, when a lane change of a host vehicle is made, a vehicle control device sets a steering reaction force given to a steering operation in the direction of the lane change of the host vehicle to a reaction force of a smaller value than a reaction force of a standard value. Further, when a vehicle approach condition that another vehicle traveling in a lane on a side to which the lane of the host vehicle is to be changed is approaching the host vehicle from behind is met at the time when a lane change of the host vehicle is made, the vehicle control device does not set the steering reaction force given to the steering operation in the direction of the lane change of the host vehicle to a reaction force of a value smaller than the standard value.

Vehicle control device

An automatic control apparatus for an engine detects an operation position of a mechanical shift lever for shifting gears of a transmission, automatically stops the engine when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the case where the operation position is at a first specific range, and automatically restarts the engine in the case where, after the operation position is switched from the first specific range to a second specific range while the engine is stopped, the second specific range is maintained for a predetermined time. When the operation position is switched from the first specific range to the second specific range while the engine is stopped, it is determined whether or not the driver has an intention to start the vehicle, and if YES, the predetermined time is set to be shorter than when it is determined that there is no intention to start the vehicle.

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Yu Sakai