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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2016
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masanori Takeda, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/12 (2020.01); B60W 30/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 30/10 (2013.01); B60W 30/12 (2013.01); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02);
Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect a nearby vehicle that travels near a host vehicle; an estimating unit configured to estimate a positional change of the nearby vehicle detected by the detecting unit; and a period deriving unit configured to derive a lane changeable period during which lane change is possible to a lane change target position set as a relative position with respect to the nearby vehicle that travels in an adjacent lane that is adjacent to a host vehicle lane on the basis of a positional change of the nearby vehicle estimated by the estimating unit.