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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2020
Yazaki Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
YAZAKI CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control system applied to a column traveling system includes: a communication unit that is disposed in a host vehicle, and configured to be able to transmit/receive communication information to/from another vehicle in a column that travels while being included in the column as a group together with the host vehicle; an output unit that is disposed in the host vehicle, and configured to be able to output a visual system output related to the sense of sight to the outside of the host vehicle; and a controller configured to be able to perform intra-column cooperation processing of controlling the output unit to cause a plurality of the visual system outputs to cooperate with each other in the entire column based on the communication information. As a result, the vehicle control system applied to the column traveling system enables appropriate column traveling to be performed.