Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.

Yuichi Komoriya

Yoichi Iihoshi

Yuuki Okuda

Yuto Imanishi

Koichi Terui

Provided is a vehicle control device capable of reducing unease experienced by a driver and assisting a lane change of a vehicle. A vehicle control deviceassists a lane change of a vehicle, said device comprising: a visible range calculation unitthat calculates an area as a visible range by excluding the area occupied by preceding vehiclesfrom the area corresponding to the field of vision whilst driving; and a lane-change control unitthat conducts processing related to the lane change, on the basis of the calculated visible range. The lane-change control unitconducts processing related to the lane change on the basis of the visible range of the current-travel lane of the vehicle, and the visible range of the intended change-destination lane of the vehicle.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yuichi Komoriya