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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Masayasu Shimakage, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/00 (2020.02); B60W 2552/30 (2020.02); B60W 2554/801 (2020.02); B60W 2554/804 (2020.02); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract
During automated or autonomous travel control of a subject vehicle, when a road section including at least one of a curve and a narrow road is present ahead of the subject vehicle and another vehicle is traveling in an adjacent lane to the traveling lane for the subject vehicle, inter-vehicle distance control is executed in which the subject vehicle is controlled to travel with an inter-vehicle distance that is set such that the subject vehicle and the other vehicle do not travel side by side when the subject vehicle travels in the road section.