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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2017
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Yamada, Osaka, JP;
Shoichi Tanada, Osaka, JP;
Shigeki Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Masataka Tokunaga, Osaka, JP;
Hitoshi Konishi, Wako, JP;
SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A driving safety support system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a server, and a safety driving assistant device. The server performs operations including: acquiring, from probe vehicles, probe information including information of a time within a predetermined time period and a position of the corresponding probe vehicle at the time; calculating, based on the probe information, a traffic congestion tail position located upstream of a branch point at which a road branches into a plurality of lanes; and calculating a lane-change recommendation section in which a lane change is recommended based on the traffic congestion tail position. The safety driving assistant device performs operations including executing a driving safety support process for a target vehicle based on the lane-change recommendation section.