Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuma Ito

Ryuta Hashimoto

Eiki Kitagawa

A vehicle stop holding device for holding a stop of a vehicle includes a ECU for starting execution of a backup control for holding a stop state of the vehicle by a brake holding device when an operation of getting off the driver of the vehicle is detected while the vehicle is stopped by the brake device, and ECU outputs a brake operation request for requesting an operation of the brake device to the driver and releases the brake of the brake device when both a release operation of the seat belt by the driver of the vehicle and an opening operation which is an operation for opening the door are detected during a period from the start of the execution of the backup control until the completion of the completion.

Vehicle stop holding device

A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus outputs first and second announcements and executes a voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. The first announcement is to inform a driver of contents of the voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition. The second announcement is to request the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents. The apparatus completes outputting the first announcement and execute the voice operation process, or stops outputting the first announcement, execute the voice operation process, and output a third announcement to inform the driver of the contents of the executed voice operation process when the approval operation is performed while the first announcement is output.

Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program

The processor of the driving support device satisfies the second condition for determining that the driver of the own vehicle was paying attention to the area in front of the own vehicle at the time the first condition for determining that the preceding vehicle has started is satisfied. If not, the notification device is controlled to present predetermined first information to the driver, and after presenting the first information, the switch device is operated without the second condition being satisfied. If it is detected that the notification device has been activated, the notification device is controlled to present second information to the driver, and after presenting the second information, the switch device is operated without the second condition being satisfied. When it is detected that the host vehicle has been moved, the host vehicle is controlled so that the host vehicle starts in a predetermined first mode.

Driving support device, driving support method, and storage medium that stores driving support program

The vehicle stop holding device that holds the stop of the vehicle and includes an ECU. The ECU configured to execute takeover control for taking over the operation of a brake device to a driver after the ECU stops the vehicle by the brake device in case where it is determined that the backup control for holding the stop state of the vehicle by a brake holding device cannot be realized and the getting-off operation by the driver is detected, and to execute takeover control after the ECU stops the vehicle by the brake device when a grace time required for the takeover control elapses from a reference time after a determination in case where it is determined that the backup control for holding the stop state of the vehicle by the brake holding device cannot be realized and the getting-off operation by the driver is not detected.

A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition, and execute the voice operation process when an approval operation to approve the informed contents, is performed by the driver. The apparatus cancels a plan to execute the voice operation process and informs the driver that executing the voice operation process is not permitted when a moving situation of the vehicle becomes a predetermined situation which does not permit executing the voice operation process after informing the driver of the contents of the voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control and before the approval operation is performed.

A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition and request the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents. The apparatus executes the voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. When a moving situation of the vehicle is not a predetermined situation which needs the approval operation, the apparatus execute the voice operation process without the approval operation being performed, and set an upper limit of an acceleration of the vehicle by the moving control to a value smaller than the upper limit set when executing the voice operation process in response to the approval operation being performed.

Disclosed is a control apparatus for a stopped state holding apparatus which can be switched between a holding state for holding a vehicle in a stopped state and a cancelled state in which the holding state is cancelled. The control apparatus includes a detection section for detecting a manipulation state of an operation section manipulated by an operator to switch the stopped state holding apparatus to the holding state or the cancelled state, and a control section for controlling operation of the stopped state holding apparatus on the basis of the detected manipulation state. In the case where the detection section detects a particular manipulation state in which a manipulation of the operation section for switching the stopped state holding apparatus continues for a predetermined period of time or longer, the control section controls the operation of the stopped state holding apparatus irrespective of the particular manipulation state.

Control apparatus, control method, and program

A vehicle control apparatus performs an acceleration suppressing control to suppress an acceleration of a vehicle, when a distracted state detected based on a driver's seat image continues for a predetermined first time. The distracted state is a state in which an attentiveness for driving of the driver is impaired. The vehicle control apparatus performs a deceleration control to decelerate the vehicle to stop the vehicle, when the distracted state continues for a predetermined second time that is longer than the first time.

Vehicle control apparatus, vehicle, acceleration-and-deceleration control method, and vehicle control program

A vehicle control device has a processor configured to decide on standby time for waiting until a vehicle that is capable of automatic control for at least one vehicle operation from among driving, braking and steering is to begin the operation for the lane change, based on either first information indicating the degree to which the driver contributes to control of the vehicle or second information representing the extent to which manual control of the vehicle by the driver is possible, the greater the degree to which the driver contributes to control of the vehicle, represented by the first information, or the extent to which manual control of the vehicle by the driver is possible, represented by the second information, the shorter the standby time.

Vehicle control device and storage medium storing computer program for vehicle control

A notification location setting device comprises a notification device, and a processor configured to set on a traveling road a notification location where the driver is to be notified of a control switching request for switching operation of the vehicle from automatic control to manual control, based on the shape of a width-varying zone where the width of the traveling road varies before a merging location, in a case where a merging location where the traveling road on which the vehicle is traveling within a traveling route toward the destination location of the vehicle merges with another road, and to notify the driver of the control switching request via the notification device when the vehicle has not entered the other road at the notification location.

Notification location setting device, storage medium storing computer program for notification location setting, and notification location setting method

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Tokyo-to, Japan

Yuma Ito