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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2016
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Shigenobu Saigusa, Westbloomfield, MI (US);
Yoichi Sugimoto, Novi, MI (US);
Zeljko Medenica, Southfield, MI (US);
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Some embodiments are directed to methods and apparatus for predicting traffic conditions and controlling a host vehicle based on the predicted conditions for travel along a path. The methods and apparatus can perform the following: accessing current path data relevant to a location and speed the host vehicle; detecting data, from a vehicular communications network, from a merging vehicle intending to merge into the path of the host vehicle; detecting data, from the vehicular communications network, of preceding traffic in the path of the host vehicle; determining a speed and location of the merging vehicle from the data transmitted over the vehicle communications network; determining a speed and location of preceding traffic on the path of the host vehicle from the data transmitted over the vehicular communications network; and predicting whether the speed of the preceding traffic or the speed of the merging vehicle will slow down during the merge.