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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2016
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Kunimichi Hatano, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control device includes: an automatic driving control unit performing automatic driving control of automatically controlling one or both of acceleration/deceleration and steering of a subject vehicle such that the subject vehicle runs along a route to a destination; an avoidance target object detecting unit detecting an avoidance target object that is a target object to be avoided in the vicinity of the subject vehicle; and an avoidance control unit performing an avoidance operation by executing avoidance control of automatically controlling one or both of the acceleration/deceleration and the steering of the subject vehicle with a priority with respect to the automatic driving control in a case in which approach of the subject vehicle to the detected avoidance target object within a predetermined range is detected, and the automatic driving control unit ends the automatic driving control in a case in which the avoidance operation is executed.