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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Naoki Taki, Okazaki, JP;
Masaaki Uechi, Nagoya, JP;
Yoji Mizoguchi, Nagakute, JP;
Hiroshi Harada, Nagakute, JP;
Kumiko Kondo, Nisshin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control method of performing automatic braking for automatically braking a vehicle or alarm output, depending on a possibility of a collision between the vehicle and an obstacle, includes: cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when an accelerator operation amount is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output, and cancelling the automatic braking or the alarm output, when a given cancellation condition is satisfied under a situation where the accelerator operation amount of the vehicle is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, during the automatic braking or the alarm output.