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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
May. 10, 2017
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi Aichi-ken, JP;
Kunihito Sato, Mishima, JP;
Kentaro Ichikawa, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Taisuke Sugaiwa, Susono, JP;
Maiko Hirano, Susono, JP;
Bunyo Okumura, Susono, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle includes an autonomous driving device that executes autonomous drive control; a track generation section that generates a travel track of the vehicle based on an estimation result by a self-position estimation section and a recognition result by an object recognition section; an actuator that moves the vehicle so that the vehicle travels along the travel track; a trigger input pedal disposed at a left side from an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal, seen from a driver; and an autonomous drive control start determination section that starts the autonomous drive control when an autonomous drive control start trigger is inputted via the trigger input pedal and it is determined that start of the autonomous drive control is possible.