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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2016
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Hirotoshi Ueda, Kanagawa, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A route setting method capable of causing a host vehicle to continuously follow traveling tracks of other vehicles including a preceding vehicle so as to travel stably uses a peripheral vehicle sensor installed in the host vehicle to detect positions of other vehicles traveling around the host vehicle, and a controller for setting a route of the host vehicle according to traveling tracks of the other vehicles based on histories of positions of the other vehicles, the method including calculating a displaced amount of traveling tracks of the preceding vehicle specified from the other vehicles, and setting the route of the host vehicle according to traveling tracks of another vehicle different from the preceding vehicle when the displaced amount of the traveling tracks of the preceding vehicle is a threshold or greater.